Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though governments of underdeveloped countries are under constant pressure to achieve economic and social gains, they cannot realistically hope to match in a few years the living standards built up by Western nations over the centuries. In Mexico, for example, noted Dr. David McCord Wright, professor of economics and political science at Montreal's McGill University, the value of goods and services produced per capita in 1955 was $187, v. $2,343 in the U.S. Even to increase the per capita gross national product to the present U.S. level by 1980−when Mexico's population will have...
...need for dedicated advisers and investors was a constant theme with Asian and African delegates, resentful of colonial exploitation. But Iran's Ebtehaj pointed up another evil heritage: the bitter memory of exploitation of the people of underdeveloped countries by their own kind. Free enterprise still suffers in Iran, Ebtehaj said, from a "disastrous" experiment before World War II. Locally owned textile mills were established. Many small investors bought stock. The big stockholders, who exercised control, robbed the mills by overcharging for raw cotton they sold to the mills and underpaying for finished textiles they bought back from...
Industrialization is not boosted or inflation cured by overspending for armaments, by constant overreaching for "too much," by sheer "waste" from planning caused by pure political expediency. "If governments become the prisoners of their own more or less arbitrary development targets, in all probability something will have to give under the pressures of inflation and the impatience generated because practice is not living up to promise. And perhaps the greatest danger is not that development will give, but that government by the consent of the governed will be abandoned...
...need hardly be mentioned that p remains constant, as an analysis of data through 1951 suggests that "at home" or "away" games made little difference in World Series play...
...reports, the delegates explored grounds for unity, sometimes finding hope in unexpected places. Mobile American families switch church affiliations just about as frequently as they move (20% per year), reported Rev. Roswell P. Barnes, associate general secretary of the National Council of the Churches of Christ. Concluded he: "This constant shifting around tends to de-emphasize denominational differences and smooth the path toward Christian unity...