Word: mix
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under different circumstances, Barre's classic political mix of threats and rewards might have won approval from French voters, but his promises seemed to lag behind reality. Unemployment stood at 1.05 million (4.8% of the work force); inflation, down a mere half-point since Barre took over 17 months ago, is still racing along at an annual rate of 9%, and the economic growth rate creeped at a sluggish 3%. The irony was that despite the falling out between Marchais and Mitterrand, the latest polls showed a 51% to 45% voter preference for the left. The two-phase elections...
...about 150 Americans on Majuro (pop. 7,500), and it is difficult for them not to stick together. The district center of the Marshall Islands is a bacillus-shaped coral atoll less than 100 yds. wide. A palm-fringed island with a glistening lagoon, Majuro shelters the most unusual mix of American expatriates in the Pacific. The island's biggest contractor is a Portuguese Hawaiian. A Massachusetts Jew manages the copra-processing plant. They are a demonstrative lot. When Majuro's American Chamber of Commerce got no satisfaction at a meeting to protest air-freight rate increases, members...
...slash the towering public-spending debt. The unions, already angered by an unemployment total of 1.6 million workers, or 8% of the labor force, responded with a vengeance. Early in December more than 150,000 striking metalworkers marched on Rome to protest. Andreotti defended his economic package-a mix of new investments as well as new tariffs-but the union leaders rejected it and threatened to call a general strike in mid-January...
...than a lack of revolutionary ardor or understanding, had caused their initial discomfort. Taking turns addressing the predominantly student audience, they talked at length and in depth about the roles of women and education in the Revolution today. They also quickly dispelled any doubt as to their ability to mix Marxism and religion...
Sadat is a paradoxical mix of East and West. He likes English clothes and enjoys his presidential perquisites-including nine official residences, which he shares with his wife Jihan, 43. One of his homes is in Mit Abu el Kom. There he dons a peasant gallabiya to relax. He is as devout a Muslim as Israel's Begin is a Jew-his forehead bears a mark from touching it so often to the ground in prayer...