Word: econ
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Castro on the podium at important functions, outranked only by Little Brother Raul, Che Guevara and Bias Roca. In 1962 Rodriguez took over from Fidel as agrarian-reform director and boss of the island's sugar industry-in effect Cuba's economic czar. As Cuba's econ omy continued to fall apart and Castro's relations with Moscow cooled, Rodriguez lost some of his power-over the fishing industry, water resources, and finally the whole sugar industry...
...past year, the thriving econ omy has generated 1,500,000 new jobs, but only 1,200,000 new workers have entered the market - thus forcing down joblessness from 5.8% of the work force to 5.4% last month. There are many parts of the nation in which the real problem is not how to find jobs, but how to find people to do all the work available. With an 8,000,000 car year ahead, Detroit expects to have 13,500 jobs going begging during the next twelve months. Farm-equipment makers are enjoying such a good year that International...
...purchased three jet airliners from the U.S.'s General Dynamics Corp. for $20 million-only a day before the U.S. granted Indonesia a $17 million "emergency" loan. The loan, Assistant Aid Administrator Seymour J. Janow told the subcommittee, was to help the "general stabilization of Indonesia's econ omy." Aid officials, Janow explained lamely, had not known about the airliners when the loan was negotiated...
...would soon get tired of the same styling of such Ford makes as the Falcon, Comet, and Thunderbird, none of which has been drastically changed in three or four years, while the rest of the industry has moved ahead with restyled models. Consumer research dictated that Ford concentrate on econ omy features in its models; but G.M., with a more intuitive feeling for the shifting desires and quirks of motorists, had the field almost to itself when the public began demanding sleeker convertibles and pizazz features...
Some 2,600 abbreviations compound the confusion. The Bachelor of Science in Home Economics is known as B.S. in H.E., B.S. in H.Ec., B.S. in H.Econ., B.S. in Home EC. and B.S. in Home Econ. At the other extreme, M.E. stands for Master of Education, Master of Elements, Master of Engineering, Mechanical Engineer, Military Engineer, Mining Engineer and Mistress of English. Reverse the letters, and a man becomes an Engineer of Mines...