Word: steadfastness
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...traffic in lire has not unsettled the Italian economy or seriously affected Italy's balance of payments. Nor has it affected the price of the lira, which has remained remarkably steadfast at 100 lire for 16? for 14 years. But the traffic is not without its dangers. The accounts opened by Swiss banks in Italy can be converted into foreign currencies on demand. Should the government's "opening to the left" take it too far to the left, or should the tax collector become too zealous for the businessman's taste (there is talk of imposing...
Certainly, there is more stability. Only in Argentina did a constitutional government fall last year by military coup-and the army there now promises to hold elections this June. Peru's rejuggled junta is also steadfast in its election promises. Venezuela's Romulo Betancourt seems destined to become that nation's first freely elected President to serve a full term. And the Dominican Republic has held its first free election in 38 years...
...question was how much the junta itself had helped to accent the crisis. In their steadfast enmity toward the leftist but anti-Communist APRA party of Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, the military men had shown a peculiar tolerance for the Communists, who were competing for the same peasant and laborer following. Several Red leaders were released from jail, known Communists were appointed to labor councils. Emboldened by this freedom, the Reds had gone about their violent errands with such a will that the junta could no longer ignore them...
...Will government programs be adequately sensitive to the fact that good education and good research require steadfast concern for standards of excellence, and that neither will be achieved if it becomes a guiding aim of government programs to keep everyone happy and to avoid hard choices...
...Will government programs be adequately sensitive to the fact that good education and good research require steadfast concern for standards of excellence, and that neither will be achieved if it becomes a guiding aim of government programs to keep everyone happy and to avoid hard choices...