Word: commonical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...common effort, even Israel and the Arab countries have cooperated, and still do. Last week, for the first summer in 40 years, London's "situation summary" did not list a single menacing locust swarm. The FAO was pleased but not triumphant. Quite likely, as the FAO was the first to point out, an atypical lack of rainfall had inhibited breeding, since the locust's eggs must absorb their weight in water to hatch. Thus the FAO cautioned against concluding that the locust had simply dropped out of the picture. "He is still a global menace in a trough...
...outbreak of inflation. Prices in every major European country except Britain, and in most of the smaller ones, are climbing more rapidly than in 1968; in most countries the rise also exceeds the 1958-68 annual average. In its most recent assessment of the economic outlook, the Common Market commission called for "urgent" steps to bring the "unmistakable boom" under control...
...Netherlands, introduction of the value-added tax, a complex form of sales tax that is being adopted throughout the Common Market, helped to push the annual rate of inflation to a startling 6% to 7% before the government instituted its price freeze...
...have made that scenario increasingly familiar in European industrial circles. They make it their business to find out about textile firms in financial trouble and move in to grab control at bargain prices. In ten years of incessant acquisitions, they have stitched together the biggest textile combine in the Common Market, comprising some 50 firms with combined annual sales of $245 million. They produce 40% of France's tenting and bandages, 50% of its linen, 60% of its diapers...
...established with the private groups to be affected by federal policies. But beyond that, Lowi says, liberals have been the prisoners of a pluralistic theory that has become almost an article of faith in the U.S.: the belief that out of the clash of special interest groups emerges the common interest. This pluralism has been cast in various disguises. It has been called countervailing power, creative federalism, partnership and participatory democracy, though this last phrase has also been appropriated by the New Left as a call for a politics of direct action. By whatever name, writes Lowi, pluralism results...