Word: leftward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mellowed Fervor. One priceless product of the economic boom is a new confidence on the part of both Mexicans and foreigners. Born of the 1910 revolution, Mexico's one-party regime has often frightened investors with land seizures, expropriation and talk of leftward drift. But time has mellowed revolutionary fervor. Though the government still controls such basic industries as oil, railroads and electric power, Mexico's present political leaders have created a healthy climate in which private enterprise is actively encouraged. As a result, Mexicans have taken their money from Swiss and U.S. banks and invested...
...Western leaders that Zanzibar, since its savage coup last January against the old Arab ruling crowd, was sliding into the Communist camp. Early last month, Nyerere sent Foreign Minister Oscar Kambona winging across the 23-mile channel that separates the two countries with an ultimatum: unless Zanzibar halted its leftward slither, Tanganyika would dissociate itself from Zanzibar and withdraw the 300 field policemen who have been on loan there since the coup to keep order...
...fractions. When he takes three of four segments and divides their sum into thirds, he discovers that two of these thirds make one-half of the full unit. He thus has visible proof of the otherwise abstruse fact that 2/3 times 3/4 equals 1/2. By extending the number line leftward beyond zero, he visualizes the concept of negative numbers...
Meanwhile, the leftward lurch continues. The island's new chief source of oil is the Soviet bloc, following the seizure of three U.S. and British firms (Esso, Caltex, Burmah-Shell) and the creation of a government oil combine. The Western companies have not been paid a cent for their properties worth $29.5 million; as a result, the U.S. has canceled further economic aid to Ceylon after doling out a yearly average of $7.5 million over the last decade...
...levelheaded stability has emerged to touch the economies of most free nations, even those that have not yet fully learned all the lessons of economic discipline. That stability enabled them to weather, with no more than a momentary flutter, crises that ranged in 1963 from outright revolutions and strong leftward shifts in government to Charles de Gaulle's rude exclusion of Britain from the Common Market and the assassination of the U.S. President...