Word: sound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lincolnian dictum of doing for people the things they can't do well themselves, but to avoid interference where people can do things for themselves." The Federal Government should support social security and unemployment insurance, foster health research, overcome emergency schoolroom shortages, keep the dollar sound. Beyond these duties is a barrier: "The partnership policy of which we speak is to give the maximum responsibility into the hands of local and state governments to run their own affairs...
...approach is, in Ike's mind, a diametric Democratic view. "Instead of trying to release, to guide and to help the great and illimitable results you get from a free people doing these things, they want to guide and direct-and they are not concerned particularly with the sound dollar, because they talk about raising ... expenditures [and] cutting taxes . . . That means . . . deficit spending. And you cannot continue to spend on a deficit basis without hurting your dollar...
Selling fine coffee to the world, Colombia takes in a golden torrent of foreign exchange-$300 million in the first eight months of this year. As a result, Colombia should be solvent, sound and stable. Instead, after two years of political mismanagement of its income, Colombia is setting off economic alarm bells both at home and abroad. It owes the tradesmen of the world around $345 million, and has become the No. 1 collection headache for U.S. exporters. The debt has sapped the nation's credit, its currency and its reserves. "The Colombian economy," said a U.S. Government official...
...said that they were "nothing erudite, mind you, but one little reminder each day this week. They may sound 'corny,'" he added...
Carnival Atmosphere. But the biggest lure of the new supercenters is what Maryland's James Rouse, No. 1 shopping-center financial consultant, promoter and part-owner of Mondawmin, calls their "personal, informal, carnival atmosphere." Frequently screened from the sight, sound and smell of traffic, their malls and walkways are bright with flowers, fountains, tropical birds. At Southdale the 82-acre shopping zone is insulated from suburban Minneapolis by a 240-acre office belt and a 176-acre lakefront residential section. Like Detroit's fabulously successful Northland center (first-year gross: $88 million), a number of the new projects...