Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with Ataturk seven years dead and soldierly Ismet Inonu ruling Turkey in his place, Menderes abruptly ended his long obscurity. Boldly moving front and center, Menderes joined Banker-Statesman Celal Bayar and two other Deputies in presenting a resolution demanding that the government at long last put into effect the democratic liberties promised by the Turkish constitution. Soon the four rebels launched their own Democratic Party-the first genuine opposition party to be allowed by the ruling Republicans since Kemal Ataturk put Turkey on the road to democracy...
...highest level (7%) in 37 years and the physical controls that Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell advocates to check inflation, he confessed: "Neither of these works very well." Taxation, he said, "has already reached a point where I should think most men would admit it is inflationary in its effect...
...despite their plans for Venezuela's political future, the three leaders were in no hurry to dash home to put them into effect all at once. Instead, Betancourt and Caldera waited patiently while Villalba went ahead to test...
This "pinch effect" is the most promising approach to thermonuclear power, but unfortunately the pinched current wriggles so violently that it tends to slam in millionths of a second against the walls of its container. The trick, a difficult one, is to make it stand still as long as possible and not touch the walls...
...effect was to create a whole new industry. Overall poultry production climbed 334% nationally in ten years, while prices to the housewife dropped more than 30% as the market broadened and the quality of chickens improved. In 1947 the U.S. per capita consumption of chicken was 18.1 Ibs.; last year it was 25.3 Ibs. Success in broilers encouraged turkey breeders to try contract farming. Originally a holiday bird, turkeys are now year-round fare; production is up, and as prices dropped, per capita consumption almost doubled...