Word: role
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Christian Democrats, led by Premier Aldo Moro, have played a major role in all of Italy's postwar governments; they received 38% of the vote in the 1963 elections. The Communists, headed by Secretary-General Luigi Longo, won 25% of the vote in the last elections but have regularly been excluded from a share in the government coalition, in which the Christian Democrats have recently been partners with the Democratic Socialists, the Socialists and the Republicans. This time, the Communists have decided to take a new campaign tack: instead of asking for votes only for themselves, they are working...
...curing each prisoner's hang-ups and converting society's misfits to crime-free lives. In progressive prisons, to be sure, guards are taught to break up the inmate culture by friendly communication; inmates are classified in graded groups, promoted for good conduct and hustled toward pa role. Indeed, the average stay today is 21 months; the average lifer exits in 20 years...
Sandia's earth-probe projectiles have been proposed to investigate the suitability of remote sites along Colombia's Atrato River for the location of dams. Eventually, in addition to a role in mineral exploration, the projectiles may be used to find water, to place deep-sea anchors, and to bury radioactive fuels re-entering the atmosphere after the flights of nuclear rockets. Shot from unmanned spacecraft orbiting distant planets, one Sandia scientist proposes, the projectile probes could even help determine if there are water tables beneath the surface of Mars and Venus...
...spoke rarely, he got undivided attention when he did. As managing director of the 107-nation International Monetary Fund-which acts as an arbiter of exchange rates, guardian of fiscal good behavior among sovereign states, and rescue squad for countries in financial trouble-Schweitzer holds a pivotal role not only in the present struggle to shore up the world's money system but also in the reforms that seem certain to come...
When he describes Charpie's new duties, Peterson could easily be defining Bell & Howell's profitable new role. The incoming president, Peterson says, will act as "a midwife between advance technology and the marketplace...