Word: ets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...promised to hold down the country's soaring cost of living (up 30% in 1966) and to impose some belt tightening and other much needed reforms on the country. To give his program some grandeur, he even borrowed Charles de Gaulle's slogan: "Vérité et sévérité." "I demand truth and austerity," said Onganía. "We need austerity everywhere...
...trying to get off. At best they will see us as missionaries. Probably, they will view us in fact as fat-cat hypocrites out to manipulate them. Why should they support hypocritical radicals when it's less risky to stick with the established, familiar hypocrites, the Johnsons, Kennedys, et al. Second, unless they are convinced that 2-S provides no sure personal escape, students' campus struggles (e.g., vs. ranking) will turn into fights to proteet themselves at the expense of the rest of the population--and the rest of the population will react accordingly. Indeed, students with a distorted view...
...Harlem widow. As far as his House colleagues are concerned, however, any attempt by Powell to cleanse his past may be offset by his verbiage on the recording. Assailing his congressional opponents as "Judases" and "hypocrites," Powell compares his fate to Caesar's, at one point cries: "Et tu, Brute?" Even for Manny Celler's committee, such histrionics may be hard to take...
...chanted thousands of Italian university students as British Prime Minister Harold Wilson stepped last week from an R.A.F. Com et at Rome's Ciampino airport. The cheer fitted Wilson's mood. Britain -once great but long insular - was again seeking admission to the six-nation Common Market, and through it to the larger Europe that the Market envisions. Wilson and his Foreign Secretary, George Brown, were in Italy on a dramatic mission to explore, with top Italian officials, Britain's chances for acceptance...
...thirds of the French banking industry dozes along under government ownership, and most private bankers are too timid to fight. The lone tiger is a bald dynamo of 66, Jean Reyre, president and director general of the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas. With at least a small stake in almost every big French industry, Reyre's "Paribas" spreads its investments across the world. They range from manganese ore in Gabon and gold in South Africa to factories in India and Russia...