Word: outerness
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...would succeed, respect for her Commonwealth ties, and historic insularity. But as the Six's tariff walls have precipitously tumbled within and the Common Mar ket's economy boomed, Britain has felt increasingly envious-and isolated. Britain's hastily assembled European Free Trade Association of the Outer Seven proved pale competition for the spurting Six; E.F.T.A. partners Denmark and Sweden are restive and dissatisfied. In Parliament, press and pub, Britons were debating the far-reaching issues that the Common Market poses...
...mayor, Quadros inherited a city with exactly $2,212 in the bank, $12.5 million in unpaid bills, and a budget deficit of $6,000,000 for 1952. He fired 10% of all functionaries, cut nonessential spending, ended political payoffs, started 200 corruption investigations. In his outer office he hung a sign: "Sr. Jânio Quadros does not provide city jobs. Please don't waste your time and his insisting." He sold off the city fleet of 40 limousines (São Paulo's morticians snapped them up), even banned coffee breaks-in the coffee capital...
...flight had begun-the return to earth, which was perhaps more crucial than ascent into orbit and orbiting itself. I readied myself for it. I faced transition from a condition of weightlessness to new and perhaps even greater overloads. I also faced tremendous heating of the ship's outer surface on entering the denser layers of the atmosphere. I remembered the mishap of Cosmic Ship III, which on Dec. 1, 1960, burned up with its cargo of two dogs. The fate of Pchelka and Mushka had a bitterish taste. Would all systems work normally? Did some unforeseen peril await...
...take control with my own hands. But at 10:25 the braking device was turned on by remote control, and it worked perfectly. The Vostok began to lose speed, and shifted from its orbit into a transitional ellipse. Then it began to enter dense layers of the atmosphere. Its outer surface heated rapidly, and through the curtains that covered the portholes I saw the lurid crimson glow of the flames that raged around the ship. I was in a ball of fire plunging downwards, but inside the cabin the temperature was only...
Fact was, it had become almost certain that Britain would join the Common Market some day, somehow, and this clear probability was chopping away the foundations from under Britain's own competing economic club, the Outer Seven free-trade area; already the Danes and Norwegians of the Outer Seven were eying the Common Market with envy, and the Swedes were readying a deal with Europe's Six for the day when Macmillan finally decides to jump. And there was still the problem of how to open Britain's markets to Europe without destroying the vast empire preference...