Word: outer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Swedish seaside resort of Saltsjoebaden, near Stockholm, as 79 delegates from seven nations-Britain, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, Austria and Portugal-gathered to put the finishing touches to their own free-trade association, known familiarly as the "Outer Seven" (though some of its members think the name invidious). Recognizing, in the words of one British official, that "we simply cannot let the Common Market Six build up walls we may never be able to scale," the Outer Seven have decided to get their commerce into step with the Common Market. Thus their draft plan envisions a tariff reduction...
Dangerous Medicine. All this aims at an easy economic meshing of the Outer Seven and the Common Market inner six if the day of political rapprochement ever arrives. For it is politics, not economics, that led to the bifurcation of Western Europe's trade, particularly politics between England and France, part of their centuries-old struggle for hegemony in modern Europe. It was France, with its history of narrow economic nationalism, that vetoed Britain's hopes for a free-trade area with the Common Market, and it was Britain's reluctance to give up its freedom...
Time, earthquakes, and most recently, mortar shells, lobbed into the sanctuary during the Jerusalem fighting in 1948, all but ruined the ancient structure. Mosaics were smashed; the 11th century outer dome of wood and lead bulged, showing signs of collapse. As soon as peace returned to the Holy Land, the King of Jordan organized an emergency committee to restore the mosque...
Main problem facing the restorers was to find a substitute for the outer dome (the ornately decorated inner dome will remain in place). Their final answer was enough to make a sultan shudder: it is not gilt, or even silver wash, but a lightweight, gold-anodized aluminum shell (cost: $364,000). Too modern, cried some citizens; too ignoble, said others. "It will look like an ad for an orange drink." snapped one traditionalist. The builders pressed on with their work, hoping to have it finished this fall. Historians pointed out that the Caliph of Damascus had melted down...
...earth scientists have rediscovered the sea, remember that the ocean contains the bulk of the earth's life, and that it is probably capable of producing more food than all of the earth's land. Says one oceanographer: "The ocean represents an inner space as important as outer space, but different...