Word: eco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ended General Manuel Odria's eight-year span in power. Peru had thrived eco nomically during his presidency, but his finest achievement was that he permitted last June's free presidential election - and then, though his chosen candidate lost, turned over his office to the winner...
...real news of the President's Eco nomic Report to Congress last week is not prosperity-for, by now, the whole world knows that the U.S. is fabulously prosperous, and expecting to be more so. The real news is that after three years in office the Eisenhower Administration has discovered for Government a new economic role that is as fundamentally different from the New Deal as Franklin Roosevelt was from Herbert Hoover...
Welcome Contrasts. The Russian eco nomic penetration of the Middle East has the U.S. State Department worried, and with reason. But some of the journalistic hand-wringing going on last week was, in effect, handing the Russians a greater victory than they have yet won. A single U.S. construction firm, Morrison-Knudsen, has put up more projects in southern Afghanistan than all the flashy grain elevators and oil tanks put up by the Russians in Kabul. The Russians have a talent for getting more propaganda value out of their shadows than the U.S. does out' of its substance...
...statesman second. The argument which did most to convince him that the Indo-China war must be stopped was that France could not afford it. His chief ambition in North Africa is to stabilize the area, so that France can concentrate on what he calls the "real battlefront": eco nomic reform...
Last week, in the midst of a campaign to scrap the existing constitution, Colombia's ruling Conservatives proclaimed that the father of the country was on their side. "We Conservatives," said the Bogota newspaper Eco National, "take pride in the illustrious ascendancy of the Liberator, with whose authoritarian ideas we are in accord...