Word: sectoral
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political and ideological investment. The strengthening of Mrs. Gandhi's government during the emergency, for instance, has reduced her dependence on the Moscow-lining Communist Party of India. The government's crackdown on some trade union groups, and its efforts to shore up the long-neglected private sector of the Indian economy, have struck the Soviets as downright ominous -as has the dramatic political emergence of Mrs. Gandhi's son Sanjay, 30, who has shown little sympathy for Marxist é thinking and is identified with the more moderate wing of the ruling Congress Party (TIME...
...wage gains--by Portugese workers. But most western capital, particularly American loans and credit channelled through the World Bank and other agencies, has strings attached: the 'stabilization' of the nation, meaning an end to strikes, enforced wage cuts, and higher prices making revenues for a revived private industrial sector. Aid under such terms would destroy any hope for Portugese socialism, while workers would be recalcitrant and possibly violent if sacrifices were forced on them in the name of U.S. and other capitalist nations' investment policies...
...wage "export platform" countries like Taiwan and South Korea, where the costs of production are many times lower than in the U.S. Twenty five per cent of the workers employed by the 298 global corporations listed by the Department of Commerce now are outside the U.S., while the manufacturing sector as a whole is losing jobs at a rate six times that of the 1950s...
French President Charles de Gaulle acted "in the manner of a supreme commander asking for information from a sector commander" when he first met West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt in 1959. Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, on the other hand, led the way to a well-stocked party when he welcomed Willy, then Chancellor of West Germany, to the Crimea years later. Brandt's account of both meetings is part of his upcoming memoirs, Encounters and Insights, the first installment of which appeared last week in the West German newsmagazine Der Spiegel. Lyndon Johnson, writes Brandt, was basically...
...wage gains--by Portuguese workers. But most Western capital, particularly American loans and credit channelled through the World Bank and other agencies, has strings attached: the "stabilization" of the nation, meaning an end to strikes, enforced wage cuts, and higher prices making revenues for a revived private industrial sector. Such conditional aid would destroy any hope for Portuguese socialism, while workers would be recalcitrant and possibly violent, if sacrifices were forced on them in the name of U.S. and other capitalist nations' investment policies...