Word: mering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Accordingly, the program that the Premier presented for treating Portugal's many ills was vague, perhaps deliberately so. Some disgruntled deputies derided it as a "letter of intent," and a "mere memorandum." Without mentioning specifics, the Mota Pinto program called for revising agricultural credit, promoting competition, creating jobs, and keeping up a permanent "dialogue with the workers." In his speech before the Assembly, Mota Pinto spoke forcefully in defense of his program. Said he: "We must put discipline in work, better the conditions for private investment and make the public sector efficient...
PRODUCTION. Real G.N.P. next year will average a mere 2% higher than in 1978, and most of the growth will occur in the first quarter. By spring, or summer at the latest, output will turn down. Housing, as willingness to risk recession in order to reduce U.S. inflation...
...because 1978 was the year when the U.S. ran out of excuses for bad economic policy and performance. The collapse of the dollar drove home the truth that the nation is suffering from shockingly lower investment and productivity than its industrial rivals. (American output per hour worked rose a mere .3% in the twelve months ending last September, a record that one high Administration official calls "an utter disaster.") The trade deficit that looked freakishly large at $26.5 billion in 1977 grew even bigger, and this time it could not be wholly blamed on oil imports -which actually went down...
...Mere sex and violence are not enough to make films shocking any more...
...poem mere...