Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...limit to the chaotic side of social life." He also upheld the essential humanity of such traditional Arab punishments as cutting off the hands of thieves and flogging adulterers. The pain is acute and the experience humiliating, the Sheik admitted, but it does not last as long as the Western way of punishment, imprisonment...
Soviet journalists, said Ehrenburg, should imitate some of the better practices of the Western press. A correspondent, he said, should "speak the language of the country on which he reports, maintain close contact with all circles of society, keep his ear open to a variety of contradictory opinions, and only then sum up his impressions...
...European Coal and Steel Community, the first of the grand international enterprises undertaken by Western Europe after World War II, formed the nucleus of the Common Market, and ever since has been considered a model for economic development. The Community promoted steel and coal production, cut tariffs, achieved fair pricing, and took much of the malice out of Franco-German industrial rivalry. Now, however, just when it should be congratulating itself on its long-term success, the Community seems to be falling into disarray...
...organization's very reason for existence is to solve coal and steel problems for Western Europe as a whole. Yet the Community's Italian president, Dino del Bo, who reportedly has threatened to resign, says that "since June we have watched a development of replacing a community plan with dangerous and unacceptable national plans...
...Europe's energy needs, but coal's proportion of the total has been cut to 35% by the increasing use of other fuels, mainly oil. Demand for steel continues to grow but at a slower rate, and modernization of plants has raised steel capacity beyond actual needs. Western European steel plants, which normally work at 90% of cinacity, have had to cut back to 78% of capacity for the second half of 1966, and the price of steel plate has dropped from $107 a ton two years ago to $99 today...