Word: nationalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet Union, India, and three other nations boycotted the opening meeting of the group. U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge proposed to the 18-nation Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space that it set up two separate study groups--one on the scientific and the other on the legal aspects of the subject...
...number of forces will have to be overcome before the old enmities are resolved, however. Each country is suspicious of the other's use of American aid, claiming that when the U.S. strengthens one nation it endangers the other. On April tenth, Pakistani-owned Sabre jets downed an Indian reconaissance plane, an incident which did much to arouse Indian ill-will. Disputes over division of the Indus Basin and control of Kashmir have yet to be settled and there still exists distrust among Indian politicians of the military dictatorship of Ayub Khan's government, its absence of parties, elections...
...speech the other day, citing India's policy of nonalignment as the force which kept India from "drifting" and losing her self-respect. Nehru has always been reluctant to give up the Ghandian ideal of non-violence and non-militarism, and to obligate India to fight for another nation would be an admission of the final defeat of this ideal...
...have tended of late to depart from the historical relation between wage increases and productivity improvements. And if these cost increases cannot be passed on to the consumer in higher prices, they merely create a squeeze on profits that will, over a period of time, seriously impair the nation's capacity for economic growth...
...nation gain the competitive edge on foreign competition? Only a small number of U.S. businessmen really favor a return to Hawley-Smoot protectionism. (But many are bitterly resentful of continued foreign economic aid, which they regard as expenditure of hard-earned U.S. tax dollars to build up tough foreign competition for taxpaying U.S. businesses.) What businessmen can do, say U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce Henry Kearns and fellow officials, is cut the lead time on research and development, pull off the shelf better products originally planned for future exploitation, sharpen up their selling tactics. What U.S. labor must do, says...