Word: calmer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...calmer times, students were still required to take part in manual labor, though not at such a frantic pace. One of the six school days every week was spent in a local factory, doing some unskilled task. My class was set to work polishing shutter pieces for a local camera assembly plant...
...more indication of the firm purpose of Castello Branco's government. Brazil's soldiers ousted Goulart not just to rescue the country from Communism but also to impose a semblance of order on its chaotic political and economic life. In the twelve months since, a calmer, somewhat chastened Congress has passed more than 200 new laws and constitutional amendments. Among them: agrarian reform, a complete income-tax overhaul, and a law revamping the banking system. The national budget has been cut by 30%. The cruzeiro currency, once skyrocketing toward its namesake Southern Cross, has started to level...
Changing the Face. The office has seemed to transform the man. He is calmer, more tolerant, less inclined to mike-shattering speeches. He has surrounded himself with young, energetic talent: a 29-year-old Agriculture Minister, a 34-year-old Director of Roads, a 34-year-old Director of Planning. The army seems satisfied, and Belaunde has proved a deft politician in dealing with the opposition that controls 110 of the 185 congressional seats. "Our position," says an APRA leader, "is one of critical cooperation...
Partly, the European "revival is a sign of tiredness and nostalgia for calmer times," says Milan Architect Gio Ponti. Hugh G. Wakefield of the Victoria and Albert Museum attributes the renewal to the cyclical rhythm in art taste: "Art nouveau is easily recognizable; yet it is now sufficiently far away from us so it has lost the connotation of old-fashioned." But others think the revival of interest in craftsmanship, the elegant and refined, is no Proustian search to relive things past. Rather, it constitutes a revolt against the grim, stark, formless, spiritless expression of much abstract art and modern...
...Calmer times have brought the bank both prosperity and prestige. Today it has assets of $244 million, which make it Mexico's third largest bank, and its 299,812 customers are served by 104 branches. Although generally regarded as conservative, the bank has moved into Central and South America, actively pushes loans to Mexico's impoverished farmers-a field that Mexico's 114 other commercial banks are usually reluctant to plow. "Agriculture credit is a good operation if you study the farmer," says Managing Director Fernando Gonzalez. He insists that his bankers not only advise farmers what...