Word: outerness
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...were likely, I fear, to have been the wrong ones, it is just as well that they did so. Based on a vague misconstruction of Professor A.A. Berle, the plan was a half-baked, totally uninformed attempt to translate a hope that the European Common Market (and conceivably the Outer Seven Free Trade Area and the new Latin American Common Market also) achieve political unity through economic cooperation...
...fast-growing cancer mass. In four courses of treatment, totaling 15 days, the cancer shrank progressively. Within a month it disappeared. Now, more than four months after treatment, she is well, and apparently has no cancer remaining. To be on the safe side, the surgeons planted the outer ends of the polyethylene tubes under her skin so that they can easily resume treatment if it becomes necessary...
...keep pace, the rival Outer Seven dominated by Britain cut tariffs between themselves by 20%, the first practical step to be taken since the Seven group was organized last May. The impact on trade patterns was almost instantly apparent. Some British automobiles will sell for $50 less in Denmark; West German chemicals can now undersell their British competition in The Netherlands but can be undersold in turn in Sweden. The split between the Common Market's Six and the Outer Seven was widening...
Star Populations. Another of Baade's absorbing interests was the evolution of stars. After long and subtle observing, Baade found that there are two sorts of star "populations." Population I contains brilliant giant stars that are found chiefly in the outer spiral arms of a galaxy. Population II, of which the sun is a member, contains the less spectacular stars that make up most of any given galaxy's central disk. Baade concluded that the stars of Population I were recently formed out of cosmic dust and gas, and that they are rapidly burning themselves out. The stars...
...seven opponents have since lost high office, and five have been sent to oblivion, e.g., Premier Bulganin, pensioned off in Moscow, Molotov exiled to an ambassadorship in Outer Mongolia...