Word: enti
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of these diverse interests are managed for the government by enti, autonomous administrations which today number more than 1,000. (Exactly how many more nobody knows.) Perhaps 200 of these corporations, e.g., the Imperial African Transport Society and the ente in charge of Albanian banks, have long since outlived their functions and represent a net loss to the Italian taxpayers. But even more of a menace to Italy's economic health are such aggressive, purposeful enti as E.N.I., the burgeoning oil and gas corporation which, under the leadership of hard-driving Enrico Mattei (TIME...
Togni could also expect to hear plenty of opposition from the enti themselves, and their entrenched hangers-on. "We object to the new minister," said an E.N.I. spokesman flatly. Much as he might like to, Togni will probably be unable to turn the government's profitable businesses over to private enterprise, and thus leave the government to run only those which need to exist but cannot be self-sustaining. What he does hope to do is to eliminate obsolete enti, organize the rest into one coherent and responsible whole. Even so modest an achievement would reverse a dangerous trend...
...week's enti President Gronchi, a left-wing Demo-Christian who is also flirting with Nenni, began the ritual consultations for selection of a new Premier. The first man he asked to form a government was wealthy 64-year-old Lawyer Antonio Segni, who as Minister of Agriculture in several De Gasperi cabinets was the author of the land reform laws and so dedicated a believer in them that he ordered the expropriation of most of his own estate in Sardinia...