Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Main Error. "We have really only one problem, at home and abroad," Mendès-France says. "France is the one nation in the West whose production has not increased in a generation. It is the same...
...this? Mendès has an economist's answer. "Our main error lies in spending for unproductive uses. First, spending for luxury goods by individuals and the state. Second, operating our nationalized industries at a deficit-coal, gas, railroads. Third, the exaggeration of [France's] social laws-some of them tend to cut back production, not increase...
...people by radio, he described John's disappearance into the Soviet zone as "shocking," but he insisted that the former West German security chief had no Western military secrets: "The damage he can cause is not so great as was thought at first." Adenauer freely acknowledged the error in giving so unstable a man so crucial a responsibility: "That he was not suited for it is clear...
...mistake of including Jet, the breezy Negro weekly (TIME, Sept. 22, 1952) that can lift a skirt with the best of them (e.g., People Today, Bold, Tempo). Platt was promptly brought to task by a letter from a couple of Worker readers accusing him of a "sectarian, white-chauvanist error...
...brass." Bidding started at 5? a lb., and suddenly began to rise. Word was circulating through the crowd: instead of being brass, the medals were silver. In a flash, bids rose to $1.90 a lb., later soared to $4.* Next day, the Air Materiel Command blushingly admitted an "administrative error," canceled the silver sales under a regulation prohibiting the Air Force from selling gold or silver as surplus property...