Word: existing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expended over the centuries, accounting techniques have grown increasingly complex--even beyond the comprehension of all except these skilled in them. But their basic purpose stays the same: to write the story of business transactions in a clear and significant language, the language of money. Modern business could not exist without these techniques...
...afraid that the new phrase, "peaceful coexistence," means just this: You exist, if you are too tough to tackle. You perish, if you are weak or unready...
...postwar manufacturing and building booms, the reality of today often mocks the vision of tomorrow. The malodorous, disease-ridden favelas (shantytowns) on Rio's hillsides are better indicators of the standard of living than the new apartment houses near by. Millions of rural Brazilians live in shacks, exist on a diet of beans, rice and manioc root, with a little jerked beef. Two out of three are illiterate...
More U.S. economic aid is important even for its own sake. The basic problems of food, education, and health would exist whether or not there were a threat from China, for the people in underdeveloped nations are determined to come abreast of the twentieth century. Anti-Communism is not sufficient; a positive, sincere approach to economic and human problems is needed in the form of such specific programs as India's village development plan...
...become the mistress of a middle-aged married psychologist. She is deeply in love with him when, after her mother's death, she goes to live in a sort of religious Bleak House with two devout great-aunts and a paralyzed priest of a great-uncle. Her relatives exist in cramped fright, having sealed off-in their retreat from reality-room after room in which anyone has died. A wily, bigoted aunt first keeps the girl from running away with her lover. Then she forces the girl to confront her lover's neurotic wife and to grasp that...