Word: money
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Progress Cost Money. Belaúnde poured money into education until, by this year, fully 25% of Peru's budget was being spent on schooling-probably the highest proportion for any country on the continent. He attempted agrarian reform and drew some 2,000,000 Peruvians, largely Indians, into Cooperación Popular projects for village improvement. Through it all, he traveled the country tirelessly...
...million to more than $1 billion annually, and the country's cumulative deficit grew to $555 million. Tax dodging by the privileged was flagrant, but Belaúnde's programs were in any case beyond Peru's fiscal capacity. So he went abroad to borrow money to keep his plans afloat, until the foreign debt mounted to $900 million...
...discontent started soon after Britain's four-year-old monetary crisis, which has forced Wilson to undertake salvage measures that the unions claim have put an intolerable pinch on workingmen. Britain is mired in its longest period of high unemployment since World War II. Money is tight, and prices have crept upward since last November's devaluation. Britain depends heavily on imports, notably food, and the lowering of the pound's value relative to foreign currencies made imports more expensive. At the same time, to hold down the price of British goods abroad, the government, over bitter...
...cameo tapings are made with an eye for economy as well as variety. The average Laugh-In show costs $170,000 to produce. To save money, each cameo guest is given perhaps dozens of one-liners to recite. Those gags that are not used on one show are preserved on tape, along with an assortment of skits and acts, for use in future shows; they are numbered and filed in a "joke bank" under such headings as "Joke Wall" or "Cocktail Party...
...Mailer's writing overcomes the triteness inherent in describing hog-butchering Chicago as the setting for confrontation; he succeeds in connecting the cries of the bloodied hippies to the eerie death wail of the gutted cattle. "Chicago was a town where nobody could ever forget how the money was made," he writes. "It was picked up from the floors still slippery with blood, and if one did not protest and take a vow of vegetables, one knew at least that life was hard life was in the flesh and in the massacre of flesh-one breathed the last agonies...