Word: marginalls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Irreversible Commitment. The planned eight-year transition period will see a drastic reorganization of traditional European agricultural patterns. As governments strive to make their farms competitive, countless families from Bavaria to south ern Italy will be forced off marginal farms; in most cases, they will be drawn into Europe'...
Push for Change. The 1957 Treaty of Rome, which established the Common Market, provided for gradual tariff reductions, and industry quickly adjusted to the newly freed competition. Some inefficient mines and marginal businesses had to shut down, but the Common Market created so much new prosperity that such dislocations were...
"The organization is not half as sinister as people imply," said the Dean. "I am satisfied in my own mind that suspicions about HSA are marginal and that at heart HSA is a worthwhile enterprise."
In 1532 Francisco Pizarro, an illiterate swineherd from western Spain, captured the Inca emperor by trickery, and had him strangled. Within a decade the bridges were tumbled, irrigation systems shattered, imperial warehouses emptied; the enormous llama herds that provided meat and clothing were scattered and slaughtered. The conquistadors cut the...
Cleaned Out. In a protectionist Europe, where everybody from parsnip growers to paving-stone makers was sheltered by tariffs, businessmen almost to a man fought the Common Market right up to the moment it became fact, fearful that it would put their protected industries out of business. Monnet's...