Word: beer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Schlesinger said the idea emerged in a series of discussions held in Washington. Among those participating were Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government, John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, Seymour E. Harris '20, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, and Don K. Price, Jr., Dean of the Faculty to Public Administration...
Taking over the Finance Ministry in 1962, Sanz proposed the toughest austerity program in Colombia's history. He slapped an export tax on coffee, a 20% surcharge on personal and corporate income taxes, even pushed through higher taxes on beer, races, lotteries and gasoline. Rich and poor alike bellowed with pain. But Colombia expects to balance its budget by next year, and international bankers back what one of them called "the greatest tax reform in Latin America." Sanz will now have an important if slim chance to work some reforms on a broader scale...
...bewilder, bedevil, confuse and confound a fisherman, and none, pound for pound, fights harder. Because it inhabits exposed tidal flats, the bonefish is a nervous wreck-always on the lookout for enemies, spooking at the shadow of a bird overhead, fleeing in panic from the sound of a beer can being opened. Ever so stealthily, the bonefisherman tiptoes across the flats, taking care not to step on sting rays, his freshly baited hook (live shrimp is tasty) all ready, his eyes peeled for a waving tail, a moving shadow, anything that might suggest bonefish. Once in a while he sees...
Niederhoffer had won two earlier matches to gain the semifinals. In the opening round he beat Richard Stewart in five games, and in the quarterfinals he ousted Claude Beer...
...central government. There, Mulele presumably obtained funds and equipment from Red Chinese and Soviet agents, for when Congo police came upon Mulele's outposts, they found copies of Mao Tse-tung's handbook on guerrilla warfare, Soviet-made cameras, a combat radio, homemade gasoline bombs made from beer bottles-and two Russian fur hats. It was just such subversive activities as this that led Congo Premier Cyrille Adoula to expel Russia's entire 100-man mission from Leopoldville last November. Clearly, Moscow's men were still not ready to give up their primary effort: to topple...