Word: nationale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In articles and testimony, Boskin, a Stanford professor, advocates a concise plan. Among his ideas: 1) reduce the size of federal spending as a proportion of the Gross National Product; 2) balance the budget over the length of the business cycle, accumulating surpluses in good years that can be used...
"God, tell me it's a bad dream," sobbed the woman as she bent over her badly wounded husband in downtown Tehran. The couple had been among the more than 100,000 people who took to the streets last Sunday to protest the closure of the popular daily Ayandegan...
It already has black Africa's largest population (about 80 million) and most bounteous economy (1978 gross national product: $33 billion), as well as the clout that comes with being a rapidly emerging leader of the Third World. To those assets, oil-rich Nigeria may soon add another that...
In 1975, the Obasanjo regime began an elaborate process designed to install a U.S.-style federal democracy without exacerbating the tensions between the dominant tribes. By mid-1978, a constitution was adopted that included key features of the American system, such as a two-house legislature and a chief executive...
Last September Obasanjo ended the nation's twelve-year-old ban on political activity, and more than 55 parties exploded into noisy life. But only five, among them Shagari's National Party of Nigeria (N.P.N.), could generate a following wide enough to qualify their presidential candidates. The freewheeling...