Word: traded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their original levels and will disappear entirely on July 1 next year. That is also the date on which a common agricultural policy comes into force, creating a genuine-and irreversible-economic union of the Six. Now the Common Market has begun to harmonize production as well as trade; it is working out a common business-tax system and single laws covering monopolies, capital movements, wage scales, social benefits, and even food and drugs...
...worldwide reduction in tariffs, largely hammered out between the U.S. and the Common Market. In its relations with the outside world, the Common Market already has in force association agreements with Greece, Turkey, Nigeria, the Dutch Antilles, plus 18 former French colonies in Africa. It has trade agreements with Iran, Israel and Lebanon, is also currently negotiating with Austria; Spain and the North African countries are next in line...
Wait & See. Britain's addition to the EEC would produce an instant G.N.P. jump of one-third, and an increase in the Common Market to 235 million people. Nor is that all: Denmark, Ireland and Norway among Britain's European Free Trade Association partners are queueing up right behind London to join the EEC. Of the other EFTA Seven, Austria already has in its application for association, Sweden and Switzerland are likely to apply, and only backward Portugal will be condemned to watch the rush toward a uniting Europe from the sidelines...
...purification process has been mainly one of arrests and repressions. In one indiscriminate slash, the junta outlawed no less than 279 Greek trade unions and social and political clubs, of which only a handful had actual far-left connections. It disbanded the youth organizations of all Greek political parties. The new government also banned 52 regional leagues of municipal officials throughout Greece and warned those that were left to stay out of politics. It dismissed as unreliable twelve mayors in cities and towns across the country. In fact, mayors as such may be going out of business anyway: the junta...
...acknowledged to be Spain's best university by far. Its graduate school of business administration, opened in Barcelona nine years ago in conjunction with Harvard, was the nation's first institution to teach modern management techniques on a graduate level. It operates a trade school in a Madrid working-class district known as "Little Moscow," a center for the ever-rebellious coal miners of Asturias, even maintains a "spiritual retreat" where bullfighters can escape at least the horns of the devil...