Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Internal tariffs have been reduced to 20% of their original levels and will disappear entirely on July 1 next year. That is also the date on which a common agricultural policy comes into force, creating a genuine-and irreversible-economic union of the Six. Now the Common Market has begun to harmonize production as well as trade; it is working out a common business-tax system and single laws covering monopolies, capital movements, wage scales, social benefits, and even food and drugs...
...gold, the balance-of-payments deficit has severely eroded the U.S. gold stock. Today, in the unlikely event that all foreign governments decided to cash in all their dollars at the same time, the Treasury's $13.1 billion store of the precious yellow metal would simply disappear. Last week that unlikely possibility prompted the nation's two largest banks to call for some major changes in U.S. gold policy...
Western Europe's Common Market is celebrating its tenth anniversary in a justifiably euphoric state of self-congratulation. Trade among the Six has increased 238% in those years, and the last internal tariffs will disappear by mid-1968. De Gaulle, who has kept Britain out, has at least brought stability to France, and his recent setback at the polls may reduce his room to maneuver mischievously abroad, forcing him to give long-overdue attention to social problems at home. More queasy is the state of Britain. Still, its economy has perked up a trifle, achieving its first substantial trading...
Kerr believes that student attitudes should sooner or later come to reflect what he feels is the "more conservative direction" of U.S. society as a whole. Moreover, "the basic fact is that the U.S. is not a country given to revolts." While militant protests will not disappear tomorrow-"it is more likely that there will be a long-drawn-out chorus of whimpers"-Kerr believes that political activism on campus may eventually take on a more peaceable form. "The sit-in," he concludes, "will gradually join the coonskin coat as an interesting symbol of a student age retreating into history...
...high-dosage forms, and that today's one-milligram pills rarely provoke a gain of more than five pounds. The sequentials usually cause less weight gain than the combinations. The next most frequent complaints are nausea ("like being four months pregnant"), breast tenderness and breakthrough bleeding. These usually disappear within three months...