Word: coste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...probably have a committee investigate what goes on in education today. You people set up laws on what is to go in people's mouths, but you won't even set up recommendations on what goes into their minds." A survey of European educational methods would cost about $50,000, and, he added with a touch of acid, "I know you people don't fool around with peanuts like that...
...Most Americans seem to regard education as a commodity or service which anybody ought to get, simply by paying tuition or by having the cost of education met through taxes. A school system that insists on the same instruction for the talented, average, and below-average child may prevent as many children from growing intellectually as would a system that excludes children because of social, political or economic status of parents. Neither system is democratic...
...considerable cost to their own self-respect, the Yugoslavs-whose Party Congress is already being cold-shouldered by Western Socialist Parties because Tito has two prewar Socialist leaders behind bars-humbly worded their program in a more pro-Soviet manner. Khrushchev decided that the change was not enough, and Red China and all the Communist satellites followed suit in boycotting the Ljubljana meeting. In isolation but still firmly in control of his own show, Tito last week allowed himself to be unanimously re-elected President of Yugoslavia for a third term of four years. In a speech before Parliament...
...from its 1954 peak. Coffee now brings 53½? per lb., down from 70? in 1954; refined copper trembles at 25? per lb., down from 43? in 1955; lead, zinc, tin, wool, hides, wheat and cocoa have all slipped. But such U.S. exports as cars, machinery and structural steel cost as much or more than ever...
Coffee, the biggest item, is the victim of a growing surplus that Latin American producing nations are fighting by buying up millions of bags and withholding them from the market. The double cost: printing-press inflation to pay the bills, lower dollar income because of the unsold coffee. Brazil's sober O Estado de São Paulo mourned that "even a frost of catastrophic proportions would not solve Brazil's coffee problems." In the same gloomy key, a Uruguayan wool exporter said: "Only another Korean war could save...