Word: oi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...purpose title since Mao is simultaneously chairman of 1) the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, 2) the Politburo oi the Chinese Communist Party, 3) the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China, 4) the Council of National Defense...
...Japanese empire in 660 B.C. In five years the gross national product zoomed 62.5% to $25 billion annually, while industrial production jumped almost 100% to 219 on the 1934-36 index. But last week Japan had two somewhat more sober phrases to quote: naka-darumi, meaning pause, and oi-uchi, meaning a tightening. The pause in the boom had been brought about by the credit pinching of Finance Minister Hisato Ichimada to keep inflation from toppling the boom...
Both naka-darumi and oi-uchi seemed to be exactly what the country needed. Japanese industry, which must import virtually all its raw materials, has been expanding faster than it could sell the manufactured goods on world markets, thus threw its vital balance of trade out of kilter to the detriment of its entire economy. Through the second quarter of 1957, imports poured in at the rate of $5.1 billion annually, 60% more than in 1956 and $2.4 billion more than the most optimistic estimate of exports. The drain on Japan's foreign-exchange reserves reduced them from...
Four days later events gave terrible point to his words. It was the Russians who "stood up in action," sweeping intc Hungary with the full, brutal weight oi their armor. The cardinal took refuge in the U.S. embassy while the battle raged outside...
...Americans feel more strongly about the current campaigning in the States than those oi us who are living abroad. Why don t Adlai and Ike do some speeches outlining their respective stands, on movie or TV film, for distribution throughcut the armed forces theaters? All I've seen so far of the '56 elections was a two-minute newscast of the Republicans at the Cow Palace, and not a wink of Ike anywhere...