Word: eurocrat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loss of national will inevitably saps the decisiveness needed for international cooperation. The danger, notes a French Eurocrat, is that "Europe is not irreversible. This situation cannot continue beyond the end of the year without killing us." Adds another Frenchman: "In the terms of psychoanalytical treatment, we will either find our equilibrium or this will lead to suicide...
...Osborne House believes it has a genuine case," says one Dutch-born Eurocrat, "the British government can lodge a formal protest in Brussels." Formal protest notwithstanding, some of Davidson's customers have grown so desperate that they are bringing in their own vital supplies, raising the specter of a black market in pork pies and lime juice...
...think a majority of the Norwegians deserve a better description. The article could have been written by any Norwegian Eurocrat trying to cast suspicion on the Norwegian grass roots of anti-Marketeers...
...Storm clouds hung low over London's Heathrow Airport when the "Eurocrat Special," a British European Airways Trident jet with 118 people aboard took off for Brussels. Four minutes later, the pilot, Captain Stanley Key, 51, radioed: "Up to 60," a routine message asking for permission to climb to 6,000 ft. He never made it. Suddenly, the plane plummeted to the ground and burst into pieces near a clump of trees four miles from the airport, killing everyone aboard...