Word: expectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expect our children to enroll in science courses when most of them can't even spell...
...ceremony marking Dayan's resignation, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion went to the unusual length of putting on a tie, addressed Dayan affectionately as "Dear Moshe." Israelis expect Dayan to run for Parliament in the elections next year, take over the post of Defense Minister now held by Ben-Gurion...
...Britons, domestic nu clear energy will total 6 million kw., v. only 1.6 million for the U.S. The British have also landed a contract for a $72 million, 200,000-kw. power plant in Italy, expect to sew up at least five other foreign contracts totaling about $500 million by the end of 1958. Target for 1967: the bulk of the business from Europe's six-nation Euratom combine, whose purpose is to build a common nuclear power grid of 15 million kw. Russia is reportedly building a 150,000-kw. plant for Czechoslovakia, a 100,000-kw. plant...
Indignity of Labor? Adler and Kelso expect economists to "clobber the book," and the possible objections are indeed strong. The scheme to diffuse capital might require more governmental control than the present pump-priming devices that K. & A. condemn. If the prescribed spreading of capital were more or less limited, would it give workers (except in theory) relatively more than they have today under high wage scales? Or, if the redistribution of capital were sizable enough to make a real difference, would there be enough capital concentration for new enterprise? Furthermore, the K. & A. vision of a coupon-clipping mass...
Reinforcements were the last things Anderson could expect from the Administration in Washington. The Secretary of War was John B. Floyd, a Virginian who at that moment was busy arranging to sell 10,000 U.S. muskets to seceding South Carolina for $2 apiece. Floyd later performed yeoman service for the Union by becoming one of the Confederacy's most inept generals, but now he was interested only in making sure that U.S. forces in Charleston were not strengthened by so much as a spitball. That fitted in perfectly with the policy of President James Buchanan, the "Old Public Functionary...