Word: solidated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nations, to its restrictions on the export of capital, and to the role of the pound as a reserve currency. Adopting the rules of the Common Market, particularly the agricultural rules, could ruin Britain economically, said De Gaulle. He further objected to tying the fluctuating pound to the now solid currencies of the Common Market members. He insisted that the Market partners would invariably be caught up in the pound's fluctuations and haughtily dismissed as jeux d'esprit-mental exercises-Prime Minister Wilson's assurances that Britain would never ask the partners to come...
...garbage explosion already dwarfs population growth. While the number of people in the U.S. has gone up 30% since 1950, solid waste-largely as a result of the ever-increasing use of throw-away packages and containers-has gone up a full 60%, to 160 million tons a year, enough to fill 2,000 giant cargo ships. As the pile grows, traditional methods of disposal are proving increasingly inadequate or unacceptable...
...result, two boys new to the sport. Chuck Weed and Craig Sterrett, were able to play a good deal, and showed solid improvement throughout the season...
...results show that they worked hard enough. The one loss -- to Brown -- came after a week and half layoff and the boys still made me proud there by coming back from a 6-0 first quarter deficit to make it close at the end. This was a real solid ball club," Lentz said...
...deal Indira yet another blow, seven opposition parties, ranging from far-rightists to Peking-lining leftists, rallied behind a single candidate, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Subba Rao, a staunch Hindu. But the vote, conducted in the state assemblies and na tional Parliament, went to Husain by a solid margin...