Word: membership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Denmark, Ireland and Norway seek admission in addition to Britain. Meanwhile, Austria, Sweden and Switzerland all want various forms of associate membership. Should all go according to the most optimistic schedules, the Common Market could someday expand into a ten-nation economic entity whose industrial might. would far surpass that of the Soviet Union...
...hope they fall on their derrière." Giscard landed on his feet, and now promises to proceed more subtly than before in restoring "economic and financial equilibrium" with a balanced budget, an end to exchange controls, and a fixed rate of economic expansion. Internationally, he advocates Common Market membership for Britain and a European "pool" of gold, foreign exchange and International Monetary Fund credits...
Such projects are not unusual for Finnish students, who are more concerned about profits than protests. The three "unions" to which most of Finland's 45,000 university students belong are among the country's biggest business enterprises. Using membership dues and bank loans, the students have bought a driving school, bookstores, a book publishing company, majority interest in a fertilizer plant, and a 25% share in Amer-Tupakka, a cigarette manufacturer that has annual sales of $11 million. The bulk of the unions' annual income of $7,500,000 comes from their real estate, worth...
...hold until 1960. During his first decade as union chief, economic conditions and his own mistakes almost destroyed the U.M.W. Faced with difficulties, he sought to offset bad publicity by launching a witch hunt for supposed Communists in the union. Between 1920 and 1930, dues-paying membership shrank from more than 400,000 to fewer than...
Middle-Class Minefield. Since he is already in possession of everything he can think of that he might want, Mr. Bridge considers himself happy. He has a Lincoln and a Chrysler, a country-club membership and the best Negro cook in town. He has an array of stocks and bonds (which he contemplates at intervals in the basement of Virgil Barren's bank). Still, mysteriously and unfairly, his normal existence seems filled with threats. Waiters "take advantage of people every chance they get." Negroes unreasonably wish to be regarded as fellow human beings. Jews violate standards of business practice...