Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another economic factor to be reckoned with in the months to come: inflation. Everyone hears a lot about inflation; the talk is fraught with semantic difficulties because everyone has a different definition of the word, and thus a different assessment of the danger. For a sensible definition and an idea of how far away the U.S, is from real inflation, see BUSINESS, Inflation: Unlikely...
...such natural upheavals as volcanic eruptions, meteorites, landslides and even thunder. ¶ Collection of Radioactive debris that can travel up to 1,200 miles a day at a height of 40,000 ft. Touchy about having air patrols over their territory, the Russian scientists at first balked at the idea of using planes, insisted that collection must wait until the debris could be gathered on the ground. Eventually, the scientists agreed on the right to use both methods. Debris is no help in measuring fallout caused by explosions in space. ¶ Electromagnetic radiation. Control posts, equipped with photocells...
...dream of an inter-American development bank goes back to the First International Conference of American States in Washington in 1889-90. The idea came up again in Mexico City (1901-02), Washington (1931), Montevideo (1933), Buenos Aires (1936), Lima (1938), Guatemala City (1939) and Bogota (1948). By 1948 the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the Export-Import Bank had been launched; the U.S. took the view that any added agency would be a duplication, held steadfast to this position at inter-American conferences in Washington (1950), Caracas (1954), Petropolis (1954) and Buenos Aires...
...before the U.N. General Assembly. But more important was Latin America's joint impact on Visitors Richard Nixon, Milton Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles. When Dulles returned from talks with Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek a fortnight ago, he put his department heads to work on the development bank idea...
...doted on physical and mental "setting-up" exercises, excluding from his mind any "idea or discovery of science" that might shake his personal conception of life ("His index was as rigorous as that of the Catholic Church"). In his sober and industrious periods, the mere thought of drink terrified him, and he would clutch Agnes, crying: "I have found my work, my peace, my joy . . . ! I will not say to you, my love, as a poet once said, that I will pluck the stars of heaven to hang them in your hair-I say to you there are no stars...