Word: messe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Premier Djuanda, personally honest and capable, is reported on the verge of quitting his job in despair at Indonesia's political inefficiency, graft and corruption. To General Nasution, this Augean mess appears as an opportunity. He is quietly moving the officers of his 200,000-man army into key positions. Lieut. Colonel Suprajogi has taken over the newly created Ministry of Economic Stabilization; Colonel Rudy Pirngadie has been assigned to the task of drawing up a new law for future mining and oil exploitation, a matter of vital interest to such firms as U.S. Stanvac and Royal Dutch Shell...
...damn tor example, for Konrad Adenauer. He's an old man, and they're thinking right now about the people who are going to run Germany after him. They're out there in Indo-Chma and India and Ghana working at real diplomacy while we still mess around in the old Florentine...
...master, a Japanese diplomat who died in Washington, Ito was on his way home. Then a trio from the wagon train killed his traveling companion and stole the sacred urn, sure that the ashes were really Oriental jewels. After chasing the culprits into the middle of a mess of Comanches, Ito waited while the Indians armed them with tomahawks, then dispatched the whole crew with his terrible sword. "Eeee-to," clucked Bond in not-too-angry disapproval, after he rode up too late to stop the sudden justice. But Ito was inconsolable. His master's ashes had been spilled...
...such a pass that some drastic action was not only necessary but also probably welcome to the populace. It remains to be seen whether the leader of the so-called "best fighting force east of Suez" can also be the leader of the country with the worst political mess both east and west of Suez. I would like to chime in with Mr.Awan in hoping that "stagnation has given way to a new vitality and resignation has changed to constructive purposefulness." Hopefully this might also lead to a change in attitude and better relations between Pakistan and my country, India...
...industry get in such a mess? One cause is the individualistic approach that the airline industry has always taken toward its labor problems. The airlines are so furiously competitive that they have not presented a united front-and thus are easy marks for a united union, which can whipsaw the industry by picking off one company at a time...