Word: equality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...First Party Secretary Khrushchev might have seemed to Mikoyan a clodhopping countryman, Khrushchev had one prime quality that Mikoyan valued-political skill. Khrushchev could handle himself well in party scraps, and alone among Soviet leaders he could talk to the people. Outwardly, the Presidium was a crowd of collectively equal commissars, punching each other playfully in the ribs at Foreign Office receptions. But when Malenkov was bounced from the premiership in 1955, both Shepilov's accusing Pravda editorial and Bulganin's subsequent speech of denunciation were phrased as if by men who sought to keep dutifully within...
...everybody's there, right? Up to him to put down what's on everybody's mind. He starts the first chorus, then lines up his ideas, people, yeah, yeah, but get it. and then he rises to his fate and has to blow equal to it. All of a sudden, somewhere in the middle of the chorus he gets it . . . Time stops. He's filling empty space with the substance of our lives, confessions of his belly bottom strain, remembrance of ideas, rehashes of old blowing...
...many Latin countries-especially Spain and Colombia. But in Russia, reported Moscow's red-bearded Rev. Yakov Zhidkov, Baptists are doing nicely. Each year, he said, the Russian Baptist Church gains 10,000 to 15,000 members. He added blandly: "Under the Russian constitution all religions have equal freedom of worship. The atheists have freedom too, and they have places where they teach atheism." Said the Rev. Alexander Kircun of Warsaw: "We have baptisms out of doors by the river and can preach as much as we want...
MAJOR FRINGE BENEFITS by U.S. industry will top $12 billion this year, equal to 6% of total U.S. wage payments by private business. In 1956 alone, says Commerce Department, industry paid $5.71 billion for welfare and pension funds, $3.19 billion for old-age and survivors' insurance, another $1.85 billion for unemployment insurance, and $983 million for accident compensation...
Though Iran still claims that "the principle of sharing profits fifty-fifty between partners has been respected." it will get its extra 25% by bringing the state-run National Iranian Oil Co. (NIOC) in as an equal partner with Italy's ENI. From any profits, the Iranian government will skim a 50% royalty off the top; then the remaining 50% will be divided equally between ENI and NIOC. In addition, ENI will ante up NIOC's initial contribution to the joint company on a "loan" basis, pump another $22,250,000 into the venture over the next twelve...