Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...says a European economist, "the most fateful decision in postwar German history." At first it was touch and go as people rushed to buy suddenly unrationed goods. But Erhard shrewdly counted on merchants and farmers to bring out of hiding carefully hoarded goods, figured these would fill the gap until new production could get rolling under the stimulus of freed prices. "Na, Frau Muhr," he would ask his secretary each day, "are there still any textiles left in the shop windows this morning?" As prices soared, outraged citizens hoisted "Erhard to the Gallows" banners, and trade unions demanded a return...
Closing the gap of production is not only a huge task but an urgent one. From the first luncheon in the Fairmont's ornate Gold Room, speaker after speaker at the San Francisco conference traced the irresistible upsurge of world population and the revolution of rising expectations that has grown from its hunger for a better life (see The Population Explosion). Even for the massive reservoirs of entrepreneurial brains and money represented on Nob Hill, the immensity of the opportunity often paled beside the complexity of the challenge...
Private capital, said the Vice President, is uniquely able to close the gap because, "in the old Roman phrase, 'it has no smell,' " i.e., it is not tainted with any ideology beyond the expectation of profit. Said Nixon: "It is not unreasonable to set as our goal doubling or tripling American investment abroad in the next ten years." To supplement the outflow of U.S. capital (current rate: $4 billion yearly), Nixon urged...
...Peter was known to have been buried, the builders found what was believed to be his grave, and the reigning Pope (probably Anicetus) ordered that a shrine be incorporated in the wall. No other theory, runs the argument, explains why the builders weakened the Red Wall by leaving a gap in its foundations wide enough for a grave, or why they cut two upper niches into its surface...
During the six-week assignment, the rebels let them film anything, even offered to stage for them a real ambush with real French victims. "We refused, of course, on moral grounds," Kearns told the TV audience. CBS made up for that gap by opening Algeria Aflame like a bombshell with a memorable year-old sequence of an actual ambush. What emerged from the new footage was a sympathetic closeup of intense, fiery-eyed Algerians who endure their wounded, their bombed-out meshtas, the homelessness of their families, to fight for their cause as tough, well-trained soldiers. Among them...