Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like any other world politician who is fresh out of ideas, Nikita then turned to the U.N. To counter the market's "aggressive policy," he called for an international, U.N.-sponsored trade organization in which "economically underdeveloped countries can uphold their interests and resist the international union of capitalist monopolies...
...Kennedy or the Empress Farah. Sinuous and creamy-skinned (her grandmother was white), Marie-Therese was one of six children of an Ivory Coast customs official who sent her to France to finish high school. There she soon caught the eye of Félix Houphouet-Boigny, an able politician who even in 1956 was plainly destined to lead his country after it won independence from France...
Died. Frank Aloysius Barrett, 69, only Wyoming politician to serve his state as a U.S. Representative (1943-50), Governor (1951-53) and U.S. Senator (1953-59), a beefy ranchers' Republican who firmly plunked for his state's oil-and-grange interests; of leukemia; in Cheyenne...
...Risk-Takers. In Belgium a top executive commands more social prestige than the most successful politician. But his incentive is somewhat stifled by the fact that he is expected to spend all his adult life with one company or risk being branded a job-hopper. In Germany the word "manager" has a disreputable ring and tends to be associated with boxing promoters; real status in German business is reserved for the Unternehmer, the risk-taking owner-entrepreneur. So addicted is Germany to the family-operated enterprise that some wealthy German families retain the power to fire the chief executive...
...Jango") Goulart may yet veer back into the leftist demagoguery that gave him his start as a labor leader. But last week he showed that he means what he says about fiscal stability, economic austerity, and a fair shake for foreign investors. At the same time, as an astute politician, he remembered his vows to the nationalists who have long been his supporters...