Word: round
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ambassador Li I-mang has lately complained to the Burmese for permitting the showing of the Nat "King" Cole film China Gate, and even protested when a soccer team from Hong Kong played in Rangoon. And so in Burma Tito got a formal 21-gun salute and the usual round of dinners and conferences, but he cut short his two-day visit by five hours...
...that France must increase its investment in housing and industry in 1959, and must continue the economic development of Algeria. Yet if De Gaulle's 17.5% devaluation of the franc (TIME, Jan. 5) is to achieve its purpose of making French products internationally competitive, France cannot afford another round of inflation. De Gaulle's solution to this economic Chinese puzzle was to devise a 1959 budget that increased government investment by almost $500 million, yet sliced the anticipated deficit from $2.5 billion to $1.2 billion. The trick: a massive slash in government subsidies and social benefits, accompanied...
...wide list of products. France's manufacturers would be exposed to so much foreign competition that it would be difficult for them to raise prices. Had these measures of "truth and severity" been proposed by anyone but De Gaulle, France would surely have been in for a vicious round of strikes, profiteering and social unrest. De Gaulle himself, despite his prestige, probably could not have dared subject them to parliamentary debate. As it was, the prevailing French response seemed to be one of pained resignation rather than revolt. In France's mood of renewed national pride...
...never took the trouble to understand procedure. He always had a general idea that he might talk whenever he pleased ... I once had to say: 'I must remind the Right Honorable Gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.' . . . What Winston always requires is some strong people round him saying, 'Don't be a fool over this.' I remember Lloyd George saying to me once, apropos of something, 'There's Winston-he's got ten ideas on this and one of them is right-but he never knows which...
While the unions won a round against the companies, the cynically timed holiday strikes may well bring a tighter Government policy against such walkouts. At week's end Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell announced that he will soon convene a top-level labor-management conference to debate whether the 33-year-old Railway Labor Act, which tries to regulate airline disputes, needs revamping and toughening. Hearing the news, Eastern's Chairman Eddie Rickenbacker called for a law to require compulsory arbitration of disputes that cannot be settled by Government mediation...