Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Erhard is not the sole motor of Germany's booming enterprise. Skinflinty old Finance Minister Fritz Schäffer, fighting stubbornly for his pfennig-pinching budgets, and Central Bank Boss Wilhelm Vocke. keeping alert hands on the nation's interest rates, have helped immensely in preserving the federal republic against inflationary dangers. But Erhard created the proper climate, bulled away the obstacles. Keeping clear of technical intricacies, he preaches the wider doctrine of expanding productivity, the Soziale Marktwirtschaft that might be translated loosely as "free enterprise alive to social responsibilities." It means, he once remarked only half jokingly...
Three Harvard professors, members of a Democratic economic advisory committee, warned Sunday that business and labor must cooperate with "firm, alert, and imaginative" government leadership to prevent the American economy from taking an inflationary "course which will lead inevitably to controls...
...with each other over the centuries, the contract that preserves the continuity of the community and order despite political or economic or social differences. In the atavistic recesses of virtually every Briton's mind is the real, if irrational, sense that the Queen as a person is there, alert and ready with a cool, restraining hand, to protect him from the excesses of his fellow man. It is a delicate arrangement which must depend on an instinctive confidence between the parties involved. It is to foster and nurture that confidence that Elizabeth's husband has dedicated himself...
...control center of the U.S.'s satellite Project Vanguard, men worked through the night in the white glare of searchlights to adjust rooftop radio aerials to pick up the pulse beat. Coolheaded scientists at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass, got on the long distance phone to alert amateur astronomers across the U.S., pulled the switch on Operation Moonwatch, the skygazing network the U.S. had set up to track its own unborn earth satellite. Other Smithsonian scientists sorted and fed into an electronic brain the fragmentary reports from moonwatchers, observatories and radio hams...
Author Maclean finds Tito at 65 "as alert, as decisive and as hardheaded as ever and as ready as ever to face resolutely, realistically and ruthlessly any situation that may confront him." But Maclean makes no final estimate of Tito's place in history, and even Tito himself shows a certain hesitancy. "Remember," he says, "there may be more to come...