Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summer's fighting, war readiness has become a way of life. In Lahore, scene of much of last summer's fighting, hardy Pakistanis last week nibbled sweets and kept their horse-driven tongas ready to carry rice and curry to frontline soldiers. "Sons of Islam are meant to fight," said one, "not to allow their guns to rust...
...That meant there were plenty of female (not to mention male) political prisoners in Guinea, and that Sékou was just a bit worried about his seven-year grip on the government...
...Minister Ghollam Abbas Aram used the flare-up to resurrect another longstanding dispute between the two countries over the Shatt-al-Arab River, whose waters, which empty into the Persian Gulf, they are supposed to share. Aram accused Iraq of obstructing Iranian traffic, ignoring a 1937 agreement that was meant to regulate use of the river waters. Announced Aram: "The Iranian government regards the agreement as breached." With that, Iran ordered a mobilization of its forces along the border, alerted its elite Kermanshah Division, scrambled its U.S.-built supersonic F-5 jet fighters, vowing to "silence the voice" of Iraqi...
Modern democracy is something like a jet plane. It will do what it's meant to, but you have to have a certain amount of training to know what buttons to press and what levers to pull. In other words, you gotta be a PR man to fight City Hall...
Management of Demand. The key to achieving that, Keynes perceived, is to maintain constantly a high level of what he called "aggregate demand." To him, that meant the total of all demand in the economy?demand for consumption and for investment, for both private and public purposes. His inescapable conclusion was that, if private demand should flag and falter, then it had to be revived and stimulated by the only force strong enough to lift consumption: the government...