Word: stressed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apparent answer is that Sadat wanted to stress how dependent he is on the U.S. and oil-rich Arab states for help since cutting himself off from Moscow. In addition to its Soviet debts, Egypt also owes $8.2 billion elsewhere and annually runs a staggering balance of payments deficit of $1.5 billion. The U.S., Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf states helped this year with a $5.4 billion package that allowed Egypt to pay off some short-term obligations and thus save $200 million in service charges. But even with this assistance the Egyptian economy is in terrible shape...
...Kain refute these allegations. Since Kain became department chairman two years ago, the CRP has revised its core curriculum, which now requires seven courses for first-year planning students. Four of these courses--Economic Analysis for Planning, Quantitative Methods for Planners I and II, Public Finance and Budgeting--stress economic or statistical analysis. In addition, first-year students this summer received an introductory welcome letter from the department, suggesting several preparatory texts in statistics and microeconomics. The letter also stressed the importance of typing skills...
...endowment did rise last year, but at half the rate of the previous year's increase. And the balanced budget, administrators stress, is a sign of restraints and cutbacks, not new-found financial stability...
ROSEN DESCRIBES in what is frequently excruciating detail the failures of the quacks to resolve the fears and anxieties of the seriously ill. He doesn't stress sufficiently, though, how many failures legitimate" psycho-analysts have had for similar reasons--perhaps because of a too-rigid theory of personality, perhaps an arbitrary and superficial diagnosis; the list is infinite...
Donovan is involved in the "Charismatic movement" made up of people in the Catholic Church who stress the "gift of the Holy Spirit." "The spirit wants to manifest himself in outward signs," she says, which leads to such phenomena as speaking in tongues. The equivalent Protestant movement is called Pentacostal...