Word: preti
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million lire. The Ministry of Public Works approved the sum. The Court of Accounts said no, and for good measure annulled the 90 million-lire appropriation as well. Cleaning up the bureaucratic mess is the goal of the Department for the Reform of Public Administration, headed by Luigi Preti, known as "Luigi XIV" because the department has had 13 previous heads in 17 years. Preti admits he has not had much luck. "Whoever tries to reform finds himself up against a rubber wall," he sighs. "If it were a steel wall, you could take a cannon and knock it down...
...trade. The Reds fear that this trade will be sharply cut as the Six deal more among themselves and less with nonmembers across the tariff wall, and that Communist trade will be clobbered in non-European markets by competition from the Six. To visiting Italian Foreign Trade Minister Luigi Preti, Khrushchev complained last week that the partnership between capitalist countries "is a marriage against nature, and nature will see it broken. In this marriage, there are not two sexes, male and female, only two males...