Word: self
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thus far survived the challenges of nature by adapting to and overcoming them. Has the human race lost its self-confidence? The only progress the race has made has been through expansion and growth...
...Paul Hoffman, pioneer administrator of the Marshall Plan and now managing director of the United Nations Special Fund, saw a need for a coordinated global effort to replace sporadic philanthropy. Said Hoffman: "All countries, whether their incomes are high, medium or low, must in their own self-interest accept proportionate responsibility for a rapidly expanding world economy...
...mention independence or describe the rebel F.L.N. as a legitimate government. The French delegation, clinging steadily to its insistence that Algeria is part of France and hence none of the General Assembly's business, once again boycotted the debate. But Charles de Gaulle's offer of self-determination to Algeria (TIME, Sept. 28) had so strengthened France's moral posture that even Saudi Arabia's volatile Ahmad Shukairy, wildest of Arab orators, felt obliged to express his "esteem, tribute, and high regard" for the general. Seeing that they were not mustering enough support, the Afro-Asians...
Sixteen months ago, Charles de Gaulle swept grandly through France's black Africa empire-the biggest European holdings on the continent-offering self-government and membership in a new French Community. Only Sekou Toure's Guinea turned him down. De Gaulle was able to put together a Community of eleven autonomous African states, plus the island republic of Madagascar. What if they wanted independence? "You have only to ask for it," said De Gaulle...
...dollar value of final demand for a particular sector is equal to the sum of the inputs that go into that sector. Inputs are totaled in the columns (up and down), outputs are totaled in rows (left to right). By using a double entry system, the chart is self-checking with total output and total input for each sector resulting in equal dollar values...