Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...possible sites for the Behavioral Sciences building, both on Kirkland St., have been named by Robert T. White '25, chairman of the Department of Social Relations...
...Other party standings: Liberal 105, C.C.F. (Socialist) 25, Social Credit 19, Independent 3, vacancies 2, plus a nonvoting Speaker...
Though governments of underdeveloped countries are under constant pressure to achieve economic and social gains, they cannot realistically hope to match in a few years the living standards built up by Western nations over the centuries. In Mexico, for example, noted Dr. David McCord Wright, professor of economics and political science at Montreal's McGill University, the value of goods and services produced per capita in 1955 was $187, v. $2,343 in the U.S. Even to increase the per capita gross national product to the present U.S. level by 1980−when Mexico's population will have...
...date machinery and management methods, hydroelectric energy, nuclear power, research to find substitutes for earth's dwindling resources. This means also, as Economist Staley urged, that governments must be prepared to make a "deep-going transformation in methods of work, in education, in administration, even in social institutions like the family and religion...
...A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany emphasized that "American labor believes that private enterprise has been and can be a great force for economic and social progress." To increase its effectiveness in helping underdeveloped nations, Meany suggested 1) an International Investment Code under which nations receiving private capital or governmental technical assistance would guarantee investors against arbitrary treatment; 2) a multi-billion-dollar International Consumers Credit Fund ito underwrite long-term installment purchasing of consumer goods...