Word: primes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...normally so jaunty when things break right for him, was no Struttin' Sam on election night. Surrounded by bodyguards, he made a perfunctory appearance before his supporters, said unwontedly little, and left early. Nor, indeed, was there much to celebrate in the bitter post-election atmosphere. Unmistakably, the prime components of Yorty's victory were crass appeals to racism and fear...
...socialists but not extremists or fanatics," announced new Prime Minister Babikir Awadallah, a London-trained barrister and onetime Chief Justice of the Sudan. But, he added in an introductory meeting with Khartoum's diplomatic corps, "we are Arabs and fanatics as far as the Palestine question is concerned. We advocate nonalignment in foreign policy, but we will stand fast against any country that supports Israel, be it Eastern or Western...
...textile merchant and President Ismail Azhari's twelve-year-old son. For weeks before it was overthrown, the ruling coalition had been in effect a caretaker government, after the powerful Umma Party had healed a split between its traditionalist and progressive wings. The man in line to become Prime Minister had been Sadik Mahdi, 33, a progressive, development-minded politician who had made a promising start on solving the Sudan's problems during a brief stint as Prime Minister in 1966-67. Just after the take-over last week, Sadik gathered with his followers in the anteroom...
...loans to finance corporate takeovers. The pressure is strongest on banks in the East and on the West Coast because they deal with many large corporations that need money to expand. The cost of borrowing, already at a 40-year peak, continues to rise. Bankers have stepped up their prime rate four times in the past six months, to an alltime high 7½%, and speculation is widespread that they will soon increase it again. That expectation helped to depress the stock market last week. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 10 points...
...A.F.L.-C.I.O. has recognized the alliance as a challenge to its hegemony and threatened to expel any member union that joins it. The alliance has already made some unsuccessful overtures to A.F.L.-C.I.O. members, but its prime organizational targets lie outside. Some 58 million members of the U.S. labor force-notably those on the farms, in the civil service, in stores and offices -are considered ripe for unionization. The Teamsters' 2,000,000 members and the U.A.W.'s 1,600,000 will each have to contribute 100 a month, giving the alliance operating funds of $4.3 million...