Word: commonical
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...there a way in which we Americans approve of assassination? May it not lie in our enjoyment of the feeling of national unity that comes from a common feeling of personal involvement in a great tragedy? Christendom is or was united by a feeling of personal involvement in Christ's tragedy. Are our assassinations sacramental...
...Gaulle's allies in the government majority, who have often said "but," yet always voted "yes" in the crunches, the Giscardists differ from the all-out Gaullists in degree: more Europe-oriented, more sympathetic to the Common Market and Britain's entry into it, critical of Gaullism's "insufficiency of dialogue." Giscard, once De Gaulle's Finance Minister, is youthful, bright and eloquent, with good long-term political prospects. Right now, the prospects of his party depend on the Gaullists. He is linked with them in an ad hoc Union for the Defense of the Republic...
...import boom is the result of a three-year-old U.S. Canadian trade agreement that, by eliminating all tariffs on cars shipped across the border, has created a vast if little-noticed common market now accounting for fully one-fifth of the two countries' $14 billion in annual trade. Traffic within that market runs both ways-the U.S. last year imported 318,000 cars from Canada, exported 239,000 to its neighbor in return...
Pity the British executive. He has had to keep his upper lip stiff against the problems of the pound, a prohibitive investment income tax, Common Market blackballs and Prime Minister Harold Wilson's accusation of "sheer damn laziness." Now comes a study showing that for all his pains, the British executive is paid at a level that is far and away the lowest in Europe...
Studying cash salaries and bonuses paid in Britain and five of the Common Market nations, the U.S. management-consultant firm of Towers, Perrin, Forster & Crosby found that, over the past eight years, British executives have slipped from fifth to last place in the pay scale. French and Italian executives now rank at the top, ahead of Germans (who were No. 1 in 1960), Belgians and the Dutch, who happily yielded the cellar to the British...