Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unemployment compensation has the advantage of mitigating economic ills with considerable immediacy. An unemployed worker is a man with a suddenly reduced income and purchasing power. An automatic stabilizer, compensation begins immediately when a worker loses his job and tends to maintain his purchasing power...
...help the F.L.N., Algeria's rebels will turn to Cairo and the Soviet Union. He is tied to France by education and training, and his wife is French. When Bourguiba won his country's independence two years ago, he pledged himself and his new country to maintain "special links" with France, still looks to it for economic help. He has curbed the power of his anti-French Interior Minister, Taieb Mehri, and fired his Minister of Youth and Sports, Azouz Rebai, for using his position to inflame Tunisian youth. He has repeatedly ignored Communist overtures, and only accepted...
...Tunisia is unique in the Arab world as having allied herself unequivocally with the Western bloc," says Bourguiba. "Tunisia is a bastion in North Africa, and U.S. support is vital if I am to maintain my influence with the Algerians. The only thing that has kept the Algerians from moving over to the side of Nasser is the help they are getting from Tunisia." Last week Bourguiba called it "disquieting" that the F.L.N. leaders, who have recently held their councils of war in Tunis, have shifted their next meeting to Cairo...
...Last year 14 states did not require even a single course in science or mathematics for a high school diploma. While 27 states maintain special supervisors for physical education, and all 48 have supervisors for home economics, agriculture and "distributive trades," only two states employ a mathematics supervisor, and only six have supervisors for science...
...then added a snapper. "Two Ramblers can be operated for the cost of the official car you are driving," he wired Wagner. The mayor rides in a seven-passenger 1955 Cadillac limousine, which is 19 ft. long v. 14.8 ft. of a Rambler American, costs $822 a year to maintain, not counting a chauffeur's annual salary of up to $4,865. Moreover, the city runs about 65 motor mastodons (Cadillacs, Lincolns, Chryslers, Packards) for conveying top brass, as well as 149 medium ones (Buicks, Mercuries, Dodges, Pontiacs, De Sotos) for lesser lights...