Word: soon
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Many Economies. For all the successes of Suharto's technocrats, Indonesia's persisting problems are staggering. Unless the benefits of stabilization filter down to the masses soon, political problems may surface again. The new five-year plan is dependent in part on foreign aid, which totals $500 million this year, $208 million of that from the U.S. A drop in assistance could cripple the plan. So could a bad harvest. The bureaucracy remains often corrupt, inefficient and underemployed, and civil service reform is a long way off. The nation's Chinese minority (about...
...copper in Montana, silver in Utah, gold in Arizona. In 1911, Lewis went to work for Samuel Gompers, then president of the American Federation of Labor and the greatest labor tactician of the era. Because he could back his sharp tongue with a strong, 210-lb. frame, Lewis soon became a labor organizer. Often, days of organizing in small company towns ended in fistfights with union busters...
...church that the angry Ulstermen fear so much is a good deal more adaptable than they admit. As soon as the English eased the fierce penal laws in the 1800s, it made its quiet peace with them, and by the 1916 rebellion was a definite anti-revolutionary force. In the '20s, it excommunicated Eamon de Valera for his part in the bloodshed, only to turn up shortly thereafter in full partnership with...
...still don't have any dining-room chairs," says Mrs. Costley. "It is just something we have had to postpone." She tried recently to save on sneakers for her four boys by picking up two pairs for $4 each at a sale, but they soon "disintegrated" and she had to go back to buying sneakers at $9 a pair...
...poor people (mostly lazy); and a dangerous President in the White House. Be that as it may (a favorite locution of Walter Bridge), the place is a licensed fragment of the American dream, from a time when it was still possible to believe that such inequities as existed would soon be expunged by a little hard work and a few more schools and jobs...