Word: buts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stop & Start. The main theme of criticism is that the U.S. merely reacts to events-"stop-and-start" diplomacy, Capehart calls it-rather than taking imaginative initiative. One example of policy drift was Panama, where the U.S. was hastening to make concessions after a series of riots. Other examples: the...
But the U.S., if merely reacting, has lately done so intelligently. A Caribbean arms embargo coupled with an obvious show of patience toward Cuba has taken any hemisphere-wide punch out of Castro's anti-Yankee tirades. Current U.S. investment policies are increasingly based on partnership (see below). The...
The adjustment, which set the tone of LÓpez Mateos' first year, was a tough and successful fight to save the peso from devaluation. In the first six months of 1958, under free-spending President Luis Ruiz Cortines, the country piled up a $96 million deficit abroad, a...
Corporately, CBC is a government-owned network with nine stations of its own plus 44 privately owned affiliates strung along the world's longest (4,200 miles) microwave hookup. Canada justifies government ownership by the need for serving up Canadian culture to an audience uneconomically scattered across a vast...
Fiction, Fact, Fun. Thus bankrolled, CBC regards advertisers with what the U.S. networks would consider downright disdain. Instead of turning over its programing to packagers, CBC puts together its own schedule, then sells ads under the same conditions as newspapers and magazines, confining commercials to seven minutes an hour. It...