Word: widens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will mine the ore, haul it to the sea and market it abroad, splitting the profits fifty-fifty with Daddah's government. As part of the deal, MIFERMA will develop electric power and provide fuel oil, build a 400-mile railroad from the iron mines to Port-Etienne, widen and improve Port-Etienne itself. After completion, the port facilities will be turned over to the government. Also important to parched Mauritania, MIFERMA will drill wells to tap the underground reservoirs recently discovered not far from Port-Etienne...
...proposes to chop internal tariffs 20% in July instead of the planned 10%; at the same time, external tariffs in West Germany and the Benelux countries, with which Britain does $850 million worth of trade annually, will rise sharply. Macmillan's fear was that the move would only widen the gap between the Common Market and the Outer Seven, divide Europe into two economic camps and, eventually, two backbiting political camps...
...Widen'' people-to-people exchanges with the Soviet Union...