Word: reliant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present to this week's conference. Thus it could offer little in the way of solid assurance to the Commonwealth nations that will be hardest hit by Britain's admission to Europe: New Zealand. Australia and Canada (in that order of vulnerability), whose economies are heavily reliant on tariff-free exports of meat, grain and dairy products to the British market, from which they may be excluded by 1970. Britain's toughest opposition came from the French, whose own farmers are already hard pressed to unload their high-cost surpluses. Even in Britain a Daily Mail national...
Exports: Palm products, peanuts. Per capita income: $40. U.S. aid (1961): $3,100,000. Heavily reliant on France, which is financing $20 million development program. Shaky government flirts with leftist Mali and Red Chinese but is antiCommunist...
Doing Nothing. Some 2.4% of the nation's 65-and-over oldsters have been forced to give up the fight for self-reliant existence and have entered one of the thousands of institutions for the aged that range downward from expensive private adequacy to public squalor. Whether they are in converted Manhattan brownstones or onetime country estates, mental and physical deterioration usually comes fast amid the frayed checkerboards, the flickering television sets and the cold tea. In one such home on the Eastern seaboard, a former foreman said softly to a visitor last week: "I can't think...
...strongly criticized the President for "the strenuous efforts of the Administration to increase greatly the power of the executive branch of the Government. It has long been my judgment that the real threat to liberty in this Republic will be primarily found in a steady erosion of self-reliant citizenship and in excessive power concentration." To back up his charge that Kennedy is asking for too many powers, Ike cited Kennedy's requests for authority to modify income taxes when he decides it is necessary, to finance emergency public works by diversion of funds, to "regiment all agriculture...
...experience the world he lives in, Barry Goldwater is almost too versatile to be true; a businessman, politician, jet pilot, folklorist, explorer, photographer and athlete, he is as modern as tomorrow. Yet at the same time, there is in both the individualist Goldwater message and the self-reliant Goldwater manner an echo of the Old West. Appropriately, the man himself is heir to the spirit of a pioneering family in a state barely one generation removed from the frontier...