Word: central
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the far-flung U.S. technical assistance (Point Four) program, the International Cooperation Administration will build 10,000 badly needed structures in Jordan: a central government laboratory, a tuberculosis hospital, a maternity hospital, a nursing school and 9,996 outdoor privies...
...France in 1952, he publicly blamed the United States for France's troubles in North Africa and Indo-China, and threatened to lead his nation personally out of the United Nations if Washington did not mend its ways. Back in Paris as NATO's Commander for Central Europe, Juin went on picking and fighting his enemies as he saw them. His opponents accused him of an overriding ambition: waiting for a summons to rule France once the parliamentarians had made a complete mess of it. While in his NATO job, he blasted the EDC plan for a unified...
Last week NATO issued a terse communiqué concerning its most cantankerous commander. "General Alfred Gruenther, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe," it read, "announced today that Marshal Alphonse Juin has just informed him he intends to request release from his appointment as Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Central Europe...
...government has already taken action to curb some of the spending. Central-bank interest rates have been moved steadily upward to 3%, and the order has gone out to chartered banks to tighten mortgage money for business and home loans. Businessmen and builders whose plans have been stalled by the credit curbs have protested, but the government has no intention of loosening up the supply of money. To all appearances, the present flow is ample to keep the economy expanding...
...traditional manner. He uses appropriate smatterings of these only to answer questions that the majority has agreed to ask. In the secondary school these questions are threshed out in discussion and study groups twice a day, but over the years, all these questions should lead up to the central theme of the school: "Where do we as a people want to go?" The student might learn about art by exploring topics such as: Should radio and TV be owned by the state so as to provide more access to the fine arts? He learns about chemistry by analyzing "patent medicines...