Word: basics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FOLLOWING the course of European economic recovery, FOREIGN NEWS found that Europe is amassing gold and dollars at such a clip that the U.S., to protect its own economic strength, must press other nations to shoulder an increasing share of the burden of aid to underdeveloped countries. Around this basic point developed a definitive story of a momentous shift in the balance between the Old World...
...called "art silo" breaks with the tradition which has copied palaces for museums--European palaces which are, in fact, makeshift. With his genius for asking basic questions all over again, Wright searched for the simplest way to show pictures...
There were two basic conflicts at the Madison meeting. The first dealt with the issue of whether NSA should speak out on purely political questions. The Communist and left-wing delegates desperately needed the freedom to leave the realm of student problems in order to become an effective propaganda instrument. It is difficult to imagine today, but the threat of subversion posed by Communist Party and fellow-traveller members was quite real...
...fact that the slide will not be more severe is a good indication of the basic health of the U.S. economy. Despite the steel strike, most sectors of the economy are moving along steadily. To help offset a bigger drop caused by inventory depletion, the gross national product will benefit in the third quarter by increases of $1 billion in state and local expenditures, $1 billion in new plant and equipment, $3 billion in consumer spending. "Despite the crippling of one of the nation's chief industries," said the First National City Bank of New York in its monthly...
...week-long round of top-level, top-secret exchanges among Western leaders reportedly showed yesterday that the basic difference of approach which was so evident earlier this year has become apparent again following Macmillan's Oct. 8 election victory...