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Second, the phenomenal post-War growth of the West, particularly Western Europe and Japan, increasingly rode on cheap Arab oil, Quietly, throughout the '50s and '60s Western dependence on imported oil steadily grew, until the sheiks gathered enough expertise and courage to take advantage of their golden opportunity. The subsequent oil shocks of '73-'74 and '79-'80, both associated with Mideast war, dealt a severe and permanent blow to the World economy. These shocks were a major contributor to three well-known trends of the '70s--inflation, unemployment, and conservation. A loss to the Western economies of over...
...pacification of Europe, a continent plagued for centuries with war, is according to the author, a perfect example of what a realist approach to diplomacy can do. The foundation of the post-war order consists of a balance of power and an amalgam of economic and security treaties, all the 3 products of years of labor and negotiations. After all, it took fifteen years for the Soviet Union to accept the permanence of Western interests in Berlin...
...Stories of William Trevor will surely establish Trevor as one of the most masterful post-War practitioners of the genre. These 800 pages contain a formidable array of stories--stories which delve into the comic and tragic interiors of ordinary lives, revealing an extraordinary subtlety of observation and perception. No peripheral backwater of society no commonplace experience is too mundane to attract the sympathetic interest of this writer. Just as bleak, hollow cocoons of loneliness make up much of Philip Larkin's poetry, is unglamorous, unremarkable lives which are the raw materials of Trevor's prose. But far from being...
This type of assistance actually started 30 years ago, when the Business School sent experts abroad to teach management techniques to try and stabilize the nascent economies of post-war France and Italy. But the bulk of the work in the ensuing era sought to change the world through more direct means...
This type of assistance actually started 30 years ago, when the Business School sent experts abroad to teach management techniques to try and stabilize the nascent economics of post-war France and Italy. But the bulk of the work, in the ensuing era, sought to change the world through more direct means...