Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Buying Spree. The mess is mainly the result of a reckless national buying spree. It began in mid-1954, when high coffee prices earned Colombia a record income. Then coffee prices fell. To curb the spree, the government put its faith in two major controls...
...views on other groups, through the use of methods of force, coercion or violence," says Father Murray. It is especially unwise for Catholics, he adds, "lest the Church itself be identified in the public mind as a power-association. The identification is injurious; it turns into hatred of the faith...
...East Cantabridgians have put a lot of faith in Councillor Al Vellucci. Whether they have misplaced it is questionable, but one thing is certain--they could not have picked a better agitator to argue their cause...
...Losing Faith. Last July, on the day Nasser seized the canal, Minister of State Saeb Salam, No. 2 man in the Lebanese government and good friend of Nasser's, brought a new weapon into the negotiations: a tax decree that abrogated the tax exemption granted I.P.C. (retroactive five years) as well as the exemption for the American-owned Tapline, which carries oil from the Saudi Arabian fields to Sidon. Salam slapped a $13 million tax bill on I.P.C., gave the company until Sept. 29 to pay, under the threat of a heavy fine. Salam had hoped to play...
...Syrian port of Baniyas instead. The company also fired 120 Lebanese it had hoped to use on the new spur, brought anguished protests from Lebanese businessmen. Cried Right Wing Deputy Nicolas Salem: "It's easy to destroy but not everybody can build . . . Investors are losing faith in Lebanon...