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Word: gundelach (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taxpayers from the nine Common Market nations a total of $1.4 million last year. In addition the commissioners were paid $2.1 million in salaries and allowances. The auditors turned up such items as Jenkins' $3,842 bill for liquor consumed in his Brussels office, Danish Commissioner Finn Olav Gundelach's $126,993 transportation tab, and West German Commissioner Wilhelm Haferkamp's $39,976 entertainment claim. When the auditors asked Haferkamp for guest lists of his lavish lunches at such Brussels luxury restaurants as the Ecailler du Palais Royal, he withdrew 23 of the bills, explaining that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE COMMUNITY: Luxury-Loving Eurocrats | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

...latest dustup. For instance, in 1977 as in '76, Tokyo will limit steel exports to the Community to 1.4 million tons. But at Common Market headquarters in Brussels, these steps have been viewed as too little, too late. In November, over lunch in Brussels, European Commissioner Finn Olav Gundelach warned Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister Bunroku Yoshino that Japan would have to submit a comprehensive plan to right the trade imbalance or face retaliation. The Europeans, for example, could slap extra import duties on Japanese goods that they suspect are being "dumped"-that is, sold in Europe at lower prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Showdown: Japan v. Europe | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

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