Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was a prospect which did not seem to faze President Soekarno who, reiterating his belief in "guided democracy," said: "It is for the purpose of purifying democracy that I'm seeking a solution." How much time the President had left in which to find a way out was open to question...
...army holds no illusions that it can clean up the guerrillas in a hurry. In the long, painful process of stamping out the marauders, the grim and bloody prospect is for more thousands killed, more crops and cattle destroyed, for endless months to come...
...much cause for cheer. Faced with the economic crisis brought on by Suez, Britain told the council frankly that it could no longer maintain its defense expenditures, which are currently running at $4.2 billion a year or 9% of the total national product. France admitted that there was no prospect of bringing back the four divisions it pulled out of NATO's shield for service in North Africa...
...prospect of a dual government was a challenge that Kadar's Russian bosses could not abide. Last week Kadar's newly revamped secret police began arresting leaders of factory workers' councils. Workers in a dozen plants struck in protest, and the roused patriots of Budapest tangled with Kadar's cops in the streets. Four died in one fight that started when Kadar forces paraded the Red flag past the West railway station. In the countryside scores were reported killed fighting against police and Russian soldiers -ten in the mining center of Tatabanya alone. The Budapest Workers...
...seemed to defy such measures. Reason: at the root of the rise are the succeeding wage increases won by union members in the past year-increases which have not been compensated for by higher productivity, but which have resulted in higher manufacturer prices (up 7% since mid-1955). The prospect ahead: more of the same...