Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half a dozen uncoordinated ministries bought "plan equipment" without bothering to inform the Finance Ministry what they were buying or how much they were spending. Though India has explored less than 20% of its mineral resources, Indian politicians resisted importation of foreign geologists or engineers, arguing that "India must save its resources for itself...
...hope to create a mere 5,000,000. Instead of an increase of 15 million tons in grain production, they now hope for 10 million-far short of enough to keep pace with India's 5,000,000 yearly births. Power and electricalequipment projects have been dropped. To save foreign exchange, the government has slapped strict import controls on luxury goods. Despite these measures, the huge Rihand hydroelectric dam in Uttar Pradesh stands useless for lack of $8,000,000 to buy electric generators...
Socialist ministers threatened to pull out of the coalition Cabinet charging the government was victimizing the workers. They were up in arms over Gaillard's austerity plan to slash food subsidies and thus send up retail prices. The Premier put the plan forward in a move to save 90 billion francs (214 million dollars) for the government...
...continued, childlike, to perceive people as mere objects. As a young man, Eddie Gein had tittered over the family's medical guide with its revealing anatomical drawings and its front-cover injunction: "You can do nothing to bring the dead to life, but you can do much to save the living from death." For Gein, say the psychiatrists, cutting up women (who reminded him of mother) and preserving parts of them satisfied two contradictory urges: to bring her back to life and have her with him always, and to destroy her as the cause of his frustration. In further studies...
...BUDGET CUTTERS want to save "many millions" by making all Government bureaus and citizens pay the full cost of Government services that they now get free or at cut prices. Budget Bureau will push for boost in interest on U.S. loans, i.e., Rural Electrification Administration's 2%, wants to put a fee on everything from free Public Health Service tests of vaccines to free U.S. publications, maps, aerial photographs...