Word: forming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bulgarian and helped bring out the first periodical in the Bulgarians' native tongue. When the Turks massacred Bulgarian rebels in 1876, it was the missionaries' protests that did much to make Bulgarian liberation into a world cause. After the liberation in 1878, the missionaries stayed on to form centers of Western thought in the Greek Orthodox state...
Ride on the Escalator. Actually, few British doctors now make less money than before the scheme went into effect; many make more. Almost all doctors are overworked, because of the enormous increase in patients and because of the new chit-writing and form-filling they must attend to. Contrary to dire predictions before the plan went into effect, doctors are free at least of one worry: there have been relatively few hypochondriacs. "It's been just like it was when they first put escalators in the underground stations," explains...
...Social Democratic excesses, but simultaneously in the positive advancement of the welfare of the working classes." This state assumption of responsibility has been interpreted by some as farsighted statesmanship, by others as the embryo of the totalitarian state. In any case, it caught on. Today more have some form of public health insurance. In the catalogue...
Walkout. Canny Moisés Lebensohn, Radical Party leader, sniffed the heady, Peronista atmosphere and waited his chance for a dramatic move. It came when Peronista Arturo Sampay admitted in an unguarded moment that Article 77, revised to allow Peron to succeed himself, might be restored to its original form after the 1952 elections. Lebensohn leaped...
Many of the blueprints were plainly drawn from U.S. models. Thus, the commission suggested a form of Federal Reserve System to control credit. It counseled that the Brazilian practice of "seeking high profits from a limited market" should be supplanted by a business philosophy of mass production at favorable cost...