Word: businessese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John Kennedy's second State of the Union message was the longest speech that he has made as President. In 53 minutes and 7,250 words he urged programs that covered the legislative spectrum. Among his major subjects: ∙THE ECONOMY. "At year's end," Kennedy said, "the...
Push for Change. The 1957 Treaty of Rome, which established the Common Market, provided for gradual tariff reductions, and industry quickly adjusted to the newly freed competition. Some inefficient mines and marginal businesses had to shut down, but the Common Market created so much new prosperity that such dislocations were...
Pugnacious Poem. The tie with Yemen had been bizarre from the first. Nasser had hoped to reform the Stone Age kingdom and make it part of a Pan-Arab nation; Yemen's wily old Imam simply hoped to pry as much cash as possible out of Nasser without changing...
Except for the scattered handful of Carthusian houses, all Latin-rite monasteries in the world follow-with varying degrees of severity-the rule of conduct that St. Benedict of Nursia wrote down in 529 for his community of cenobites at Monte Cassino in Italy. Although faithful to this spirit, U.S...
The roof fell in on Shinto after the war. On Dec. 15. 1945, General Douglas MacArthur's occupation government cut all ties between Shinto and the state, forbade teaching of its doctrines in public schools. On New Year's Day 1946. Emperor Hirohito publicly told his people that...