Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Disclaiming any idea of advising trained economists on "technical issues," Ike set forth some "commonsense aspects of the matter that we must squarely face." No economy, he said, can satisfy all "personal and governmental demands and desires" at the same time. "The world may try through financial and monetary devices to obtain more from its economic resources than can be produced, [but] in reality this cannot be done." If an economy is asked to "carry more than it can," the results will be rising prices and - if inflation runs on unchecked - depression. "It may be well occasionally to recall...
...peppery President Habib Bourguiba, is "beginning to verge on downright sentimentality." He was angered by French troops invading Tunisia in hot pursuit of Algerian rebels (some of whom, say the French, make hit-and-run raids into Algeria from Tunisia). Independent Tunisia, snapped Bourguiba, must have guns, "no matter what the price...
...already aware of Adenauer's delicate probing, Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka replied with quick and indelicate firmness. Said he: "The Western territories are a matter of life and death to Poland, and every Pole is aware of this. If anybody raises the problem of changing our Western frontiers, there is only one alternative -that of war." Gomulka's bellicosity may only be an opening gambit in a lengthy bargaining, but it is also in character with Communist Gomulka's concern these days to show Moscow that he is making no deals behind its back...
...opinion of the student body on this matter was quite opposed to the administrations'. Students felt that the death was just an unfortunate accident. One student said, "That was just a tough break. Weekends like that are happening all the time up here. There's not much need for all the fuss...
Thus, the matter of solving the basic social problem of overnight parties has been effectively removed from the students' hands, and administrative authority has taken over to a large degree...