Word: fiat
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...assume that almost any new production technique that is developed must be put into use, regardless of whether it conserves or depletes resources, reduces or increases pollution. Government may have to guide the decisions, though that could be done by tax, depreciation and contracting policy rather than by dictatorial fiat...
...wants to establish a graduate student body by fiat," Kyle said yesterday. "This letter is just an attempt to get a student voice into the process. It's sort of like throwing the ball into their court and saying 'All right, come up with something...
...Juan Carlos Sánchez. Recently, Sánchez had boasted that he had eliminated 85% of the guerrillas from the region he controlled in the northeastern part of the country. Only three hours later, another group of guerrillas shot Oberdan Sallustro, the Italian manager of Argentina's Fiat auto plant, who had been kidnaped 20 days earlier...
...other non-Communist nations, which find the Soviet Union an expanding and often profitable market. Hoping to modernize outmoded industries, the Russians have bought scores of modern plants and equipment abroad: synthetic-fiber factories from Britain, chemical factories from Japan, and $250 million in equipment from Italy's Fiat for an auto plant, which is now turning out nearly 1,000 cars a day. West Germany last year sold $460 million worth of goods to the Soviets, followed by Japan ($375 million) and Italy and France (each nearly $300 million). But U.S. exports to Russia were only $160 million...
...dictatorship, life has become a tolerable mixture of good and bad. The harsh rule that followed the '67 coup has largely lifted; political arrests have declined, martial law has been eased, and military courts hear fewer cases. Price increases on staples have been held down by government fiat, and per capita income has almost tripled in the past twelve years as a result of heavy tax-revenue investments in industry, farming, shipping and tourism...