Word: european
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...energy trust fund of $10 billion to speed up development of advanced technologies for coal gasification and liquefaction. This proposal would have to surmount objections from Washington, where pressure to balance the budget still takes priority. In addition, some European countries are reluctant to subsidize the U.S. companies that are predominant in the field...
...summit atmosphere will also be clouded by a certain amount of diplomatic recrimination. Carter will encounter criticism for the conspicuous failure of his Administration to curb the American appetite for energy. Most of the lecturing will come from the European Community countries, who can boast that they are successfully shaving their own reliance on OPEC oil by nearly one-tenth. Another irritant is the Administration's recent decision to subsidize the import of such middle-distillate petroleum products as diesel fuel and heating oil,* which the Europeans see as a hasty overreaction that sets a dangerous precedent. Said...
...past, had not been properly supervising the maintenance procedures used on the DC-10. Before appearing on the Hill, Bond ordered a precautionary inspection of the engine pylon mountings on three other wide-bodied jets operated in the U.S.: the Boeing 747, Lockheed L-1011 TriStar and the European-built A300 Airbus...
Answer: Not much, except that they have all just won an election. Soon they will all be commuting to Strasbourg as mint-new members in the Parliament of the European Community, the world's first democratically elected international body...
...member European Parliament replaces an outgoing assembly that was appointed by the governments of the nine Common Market nations. On paper, both old and new Parliaments have only limited consultative powers, but the potential for expansion lies in public hearings and budgetary scrutiny. The fact that its representatives are popularly elected and that many of them carry political clout at home should lend force to the new Parliament's recommendations...