Word: socialistic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Monge's National Liberation Party, however, is a socialist group with a a tradition of high spending in previous administrations. This time around, it will have to be more tight-fisted than ever before. According to a new government-commissioned report by the New York investment house of Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, Costa Rica's credit requirements will rise over the next five years to more than $4 billion, a gigantic sum for so small a country. The report, which in effect asks Costa Rica's many creditors to demonstrate as much mercy as possible, concludes that...
When he took office last May, Socialist President François Mitterrand vowed to cease all executions, although polls show that 62% of the French people are opposed to the change. Last week, after two days of heated debate, France's National Assembly voted 363 to 117 to approve a bill that abolishes the death penalty...
Mainly because it uses about four times as much fuel per passenger as a 747, the Concorde has been a money loser since its maiden flights in 1976. The British and French governments now subsidize it at a rate of roughly $90 million a year. The Socialist government of France's François Mitterrand is considering grounding the prestige plane. Officials of the two nations will open talks next month on the possibility of ending, or at least severely curtailing, Concorde passenger flights...
Mitterrand's Socialist government moves to nationalize them...
...entire program is being undertaken regardless of the economic consequences." So said Yves Laulan, chief economist for France's big Société Générale bank, last week, and few of his colleagues were prepared to disagree with him. Four months after the Socialist Party's overwhelming election victories in the spring, President François Mitterrand is determinedly pressing ahead with plans to nationalize France's 36 largest privately owned banks and investment houses. Mitterrand's coalition Cabinet, which includes four Communists, is expected to announce final details of the state...