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Word: ans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last month another mutineer, Lieut. Colonel AH Hamid, decided that destiny awaited him, and drove with his band into the Omdurman infantry barracks crying: "Here is the great officer Ali Hamid." This time President Abboud's patience was at an end. Last week Ali Hamid and four of his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUDAN: First Blood | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Sweden has been enjoying it both ways. The spirit behind Sweden's elaborate welfare state comes from a quarter of a century of Socialist rule, but the money that supports it is provided by an economy that is almost entirely capitalist free enterprise. Last year Socialist Premier Tage Erlander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: The Cost of Welfare | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

But when Erlander's Finance Minister submitted his new budget, reiterating Erlander's promise not to raise taxes, he did not explain how the government could cover its expected $490 million budget deficit without an inflationary increase in Sweden's soaring national debt (up from $2.4 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: The Cost of Welfare | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Rising last week to fight the measure, Conservative Leader Jarl Hjalmarson demanded on behalf of the largest opposition party that the government instead reduce spending, increase individual contributions to old-age pensions and health insurance. United for once, the Conservative, Center, Liberal and Communist opposition in Parliament tossed out the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: The Cost of Welfare | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

It was a murderer, serving a life term at hard labor, who first had the idea for the Christmas party three months ago, and it took him only a day or two to persuade his European and African prison mates to go along. Then he convinced the warden. Using an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN RHODESIA: The Party | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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