Word: outwardly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Outward Sign. Europe's brisk plunge into external convertibility had one important side effect. It spelled the end of a useful eight-year-old system, the European Payments Union. Foreseeing such a day, 17 countries of Western Europe pledged themselves, back in 1955, to settle their foreign-trade accounts through a new organization called the European Monetary Agreement. Unlike E.P.U., it will not automatically extend credits to nations that run a deficit in their inter-European trade. Without the cushion of automatic credits, all Western European nations-and especially France, which ran up a $460 million deficit in E.P.U...
...eyes of most Europeans, the likely gains far outweigh the risks. Return to convertibility, said Per Jacobsson, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, "is an outward and visible sign of the comeback of Europe in world affairs." More important yet, it went a long way toward establishing the climate of economic freedom in which international trade and investment have historically flourished. And it was only by establishing such a climate that mid-20th-century Europe, shorn of its empires, could achieve long-term prosperity and political health...
...only way to determine how the universe is developing is to study how it has developed in the past. Astronomers look backward in time by looking outward in space. The best optical telescope can see galaxies that are 2 billion light-years away, i.e., with light that left them (at a travel speed of 186,300 miles per second) when they were 2 billion years younger than they are now. But 2 billion years is a comparatively short backward leap into the cosmic past, does not reveal enough evidence of change to prove or disprove either theory...
...England waters, and he still sails a folding kayak on Colorado lakes. At Los Alamos he was assigned to N Division, which works on the knotty problem of providing nuclear propulsion for spaceships. He began to think about the great solar "wind," the sun's radiation blowing outward through the solar system, and how this solar wind might be used to drive a space vessel...
...Outward Bound. A sail 50 yds. in diameter, Dr. Cotter figures, should weigh only 25 lbs., leaving 25 lbs. for the hull, instruments and controls. This gossamer structure, more delicate than a firefly's wing, would be strong enough for sailing in space. Meteors would punch small holes in it but do no serious damage. It ought to remain spaceworthy for many years...