Word: relationships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years and kept the army together, and now believes he can sit there six years more and keep Lebanon together." Once in office, he will probably ask that U.S. forces be withdrawn. Anti-Communist and essentially pro-Western, he believes Lebanon cannot survive unless it works out a lasting relationship with Nasser. Chehab is likely to withdraw Chamoun's commitment to the Eisenhower Doctrine and reaffirm Lebanese neutrality among Arab lands. Nonetheless, Washington calls him the "best hope" for peace in Lebanon...
...student is forced to think quickly and clearly; he may not just sit back and take notes. At the end of the term the tutor writes a report on his tutee, which from now on will be fairly strongly weighted in a deciding his Honors candidacy. This sort of relationship continues in Sophomore tutorial and Junior tutorial, although some departments will continue to have students tutored in groups; in Senior year, every Honors candidate meets individually with a tutor, under whose guidance he writes a thesis...
...veto of the no-good price-freeze farm bill last March. Its principal achievement was that it was a considerable victory over Benson's old enemy-parity. This price-propping concept, which has been built into farm legislation since 1933, is a formularized measure of the relationship between the prices of farm products and other goods. The Benson-backed alternative: a price support based on 90% of the average market price over the previous three years before the crop is raised and sold. Beginning with parity-inflated market prices, the new formula would let prices slip by easy stages...
...recent downturn in clear focus-and incidentally laid to rest some cherished views about combatting recessions. Starting at the first real dips, C.E.D. individually plotted such prime indicators as industrial production, gross national product, employment, inventory changes, plant expansion, month by month or quarter by quarter to show the relationship of each to the others. Conclusion: the current recession is the shortest and probably the mildest of the three. It is also the recession that proved it a fallacy to consider tax cuts and heavy Government public works pump-priming, either together or separately, as the speediest and surest cure...
...McLemoresville (pop. about 300). Among the town's inhabitants was a stormy young couple, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Casey. Their marriage was marked by continual quarreling, and, though they seldom attended his church, the Rev. Mr. Glisson offered them counsel and tried "to get them in the right relationship with God." Despite Glisson's efforts, the battling Caseys ended up in a divorce court...