Word: effected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from high to low altitudes through civil airways. Exception: emerency jet-bomber and fighter "scrambles," which would be continued whenever necessary for the national defense. Said the President's special assistant for aviation affairs, retired Air Force General Elwood ("Pete") Quesada: "We can have some of this in effect within a few days...
...Gaulle was well aware, this line of attack had its risks. In the minds of some Frenchmen, De Gaulle's soft sell and his insistence that he must be invited to power reawakened a longstanding suspicion that "le grand Charlie" lacked the capacity to be either an effective democrat or effective dictator. "After all," mused a dentist in Chateau-Thierry, "De Gaulle had the country in his hands in 1945 and couldn't run it. We need somebody who is better at politics." But on the minds of many Frenchman, De Gaulle's tactic of moderation seemed...
Above all. the insurgents had a policy for ending the Algerian war-a policy so radical that no French government had ever dared to put it into effect. While Moslems and Frenchmen alike cheered him on, burly Jacques Soustelle, who escaped a police guard in Paris to fly to Algiers, called for complete political integration of 1,000,000 French and 8,700,000 Moslem Algerians. Cried Soustelle: "Let each one of us be French like all the rest, with the same rights and duties...
...lowered purchasing power would cause prices to fall; if unemployment dropped below 4%, increasing demand would push prices higher. Now they know that this level no longer applies. The level of unemployment is getting progressively higher simply because the mere availability of labor or products has less and less effect...
...effect of the changing nature of the economy is that a much larger drop in employment must occur -and remain for longer periods-than anyone before thought necessary to force down prices to any appreciable extent. Johns Hopkins' Joseph Aschheim estimates that unemployment must continue at between 5% and 10% for an extended period to attain price stability, thinks that it is closer to 5% than to 10%. Other economists set unemployment levels at 8% or more before prices will stabilize, or drop...