Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result of its economic strength, many a European nation felt confident enough to lower some of its trade barriers and chop away red tape. The Common Market (West Germany, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg) in its first year was such a resounding success that Britain, Portugal, Switzerland, Austria, Norway, Sweden and Denmark formed their own Outer Seven trading area to enjoy the benefits of mass markets and freer trade. Said a Common Market official in Brussels: "At the start, the politicians were for European unity, and the businessmen were very skeptical. But now it is the businessmen...
...tired of saying I was born in The Bronx," says she. But the continuing search for herself keeps taking her back to the series of low-rent apartments in the neighborhood of St. Peter's Avenue. "We were a typical Italian family," says Anne, "very lower middle class." Mamma was the boss. It was Mamma, working as a telephone operator at Macy's, who ordained that of her three daughters chubby Anna Maria would become an actress. "I sometimes wonder if it was worth putting her through all this," says Mrs. Italiano today...
...score (words by Johnny Mercer, music by Gene de Paul) is the big letdown: a chance to make good mountain music is passed up in favor of bad Broadway tunes. But the story gallops along, and the dancing scenes preserve the essential whomp. They'll love it in Lower Slobbovia...
...areas in northern New England will have fair weather today, with a few snow flurries. Temperatures will be in the 30's daytimes and at lower levels and below freezing at night...
Conditions reported elsewhere are Waitsfield, Mad River Glen, 5 to 15, one new powder, fair to good lower; Warren, Sugarbush Valley, 7 to 20, 3 powder, fair to good. Lifts start daily operation Saturday...