Word: nationalistice
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Little known to his countrymen, 47-year-old Michel Debré is even less well known abroad-and what Western statesmen did know of him was scarcely calculated to delight them. Short, stocky and black-haired, Debré has the face of an irascible chipmunk, and in the past has...
Either under the control of the United Nations or of an independent, non-profit group, such an international civil service could attract the top men in diverse fields by offering them continuity in assistance programs and an esprit de corps comparable perhaps to the Foreign Legion. Of course, the concepts...
After delivery, most German firms guarantee prompt, expert maintenance-wherever possible by local workmen trained by Germans. Says an official of Munich's Siemens & Halske electric company: "Nationalistic Middle East governments like it when they find that in dealing with Siemens they are dealing with a nearly all-Arab...
The problem should be purely technical. But commercial competition and nationalistic pride confuse the issue. The British press has been loud in defense of the British Decca navigation system. Cried the Daily Express: "The Americans are pushing their own system, acknowledged to be less effective, but with big dollar investments...
Lately, many Mexicans have been demanding that Pemex be run as a business, with normal profits for reinvestment in development. But López Mateos is almost forced by his natural nationalistic inclination to keep the state paramount and Pemex its old, slow-moving self. He might also be inclined...