Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle thus chose to pilot the Common Market down the narrow channel of European protectionism rather than onto the broad ocean of economic cooperation. The economic theories that have intrigued and invigorated the Western world ever since the end of World War II have mostly pointed to precisely the condition of universal trade that De Gaulle seems to fear...
There can be few regions outside the tropics where so many gorgeous displays of flowers, fruit and foliage bloom in such casual profusion. The Albanians are gradually enlarging and renovating existing hotels and building new ones to more exacting Western standards of comfort with an eye to eventually attracting more Western tourists. But so far, Albania lets in only a dribble of outsiders each year and carefully screens them; U.S. citizens and those of Greece, with whom Albania is technically still at war, are automatically barred from entry. They would probably feel uncomfortable anyway. In every town and village stand...
Painful Shortages. Painfully short of consumer goods, many shopkeepers simply decorate their windows with the ubiquitous portraits of Mao or Hoxha. Whatever hazards may await the Western traveler, he can be fairly certain of one thing: he will never be run over. Only one of every 10,000 Albanians owns a car, and traffic is practically nonexistent. As a result, people stroll down the center of empty boulevards; Tirana is the only city in Albania with traffic cops, who stand idly at crossroads, waiting for the occasional passing...
Panic. One of Upward Bound's more successful programs is Western Washington State's Project Overcome, which carefully guided 50 teenagers, about one-third of them Negroes, through two pleasant summers in Bellingham before inviting them to join the 5,400 regular students on campus last fall. After the cozy summer tutoring in such basic subjects as reading, history and math, most of the 50 panicked amid the confusion of registration and the difficulty of lengthy reading assignments. An Indian girl took one look at the teeming campus, grabbed the next bus to her home in Yakima...
...resurgence is decreased taxes on gasoline and new cars, higher tax deductions for commuting by car, and government authorization of reduced auto-insurance premiums. Strauss has other ideas: "It had better consider which market is still particularly receptive to its product in the light of the increased demands of Western Europeans for comfort...