Word: chosen
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Half Frozen. The usual remedies for such difficulties are to cut expenditures or raise taxes. Instead the Socialist government has chosen an easy way to manage its debts. Two weeks ago, to help finance oil imports, a group of French banks negotiated a $100 million loan from a U.S. syndicate headed by Chase Manhattan Bank. Last week Ramadier himself introduced a $285 million government bond issue on terms so generous that it will cost the government $20 million a year in interest and bonuses, and investors lucky enough to hold the first bonds retired stand to earn...
...headquarters of Opus Dei is in Chicago, with other leading branches in Washington, D.C., Boston and Madison, Wis. U.S. membership is still small-not more than 200. In some quarters Opus Dei is believed to be a chosen instrument for liberalizing the reactionary Spanish church and possibly even the Franco regime itself. Members heatedly deny any political role, but admit their strong liberal leanings. Said one Opus Dei priest in the U.S. last week: "We did not like the idea in Spain that all higher learning must be government-approved and government-controlled. So four years...
...year-old former resident of Budapest has been chosen by a faculty committee to live in Kirkland House next year, it was announced today. The refugee is Gyorgy Heimler, who will enter the House in the fall, probably as a sophomore...
Heimler was chosen from a group of 250 Hungarian student refugees by a House committee of Carl Kaysen, associate professor of Economics, and Louis Lefeber, instructor in Economics. The two interviewed about eight or ten of the highest ranking of these, and chose Heimler because of his "intellectul equipment, disposition, and ability to integrate himself into the community...
Wherever he has appeared, Furcolo's words have been carefully chosen and oft-times repeated. His initial task, as he states it, is to awaken Massachusetts to its precarious financial situation. He blames the Republicans for leaving the "largest budget, the greatest debt, the biggest deficit and the worst state credit rating" in the Common-wealth's history, but at the same time he is seeking increased state spending for social services and access to new sources of revenue. "Our financial situation," he concluded in one of his three inaugural messages, "is the worst it has been in the history...