Word: strictly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kangaroo Courts. To ward off financial chaos, Nkrumah has decreed a strict austerity program. Stiff currency controls have stifled capital outflow. Subsidies to cocoa farmers were cut by a third, and crippling new purchase taxes of from 10% to 67% were levied on imported goods from clothes to automobiles. But the taxes have only succeeded in cutting off imports; from July to September, customs duties were $3,000,000 less than expected. A new compulsory savings scheme requires wage earners making more than $28 a month to give the government 5% of their pay in exchange for government bonds; corporations...
...tremendous hurry, unusual even for television. Finishing the Broadway run of Becket last spring, Olivier told Susskind he would be available for only eight days before sailing home to England. That was a total of 192 hours, and the cast was on-camera for 130 of them. A strict believer in the authority of the director (in this case, Marc Daniels), Olivier did his job with quiet docility, making minor requests: he had his "brandy" changed from Coca-Cola to tea. But he soon became as exhausted as the fugitive priest himself, and called in a doctor to give...
...formed into 1.6-oz. patties 3⅝ in. in diameter. Each is to be garnished with ¼ oz. onions, one teaspoon of mustard, one tablespoon of catsup and a pickle 1 in. in diameter. A third of the manual is devoted to Kroc's fetish: cleanliness. So strict is he about it that he posted a sign by the coffee machine in the home office threatening that "anyone who throws sugar wrappers or empty paper cups on the floor will be fired...
...guests to the White House by helicopter nearly ran into a snag with Liberia's Tubman, who is distrustful of planes and came to the U.S. by boat. But Kennedy aides tactfully suggested that Tubman might like to see autumnal Washington from the air-and he agreed. Disregarding strict protocol, Kennedy arrived at the front door of the White House five minutes early for a luncheon with Tubman, quizzed the leader of the Marine band about what music he intended to play. Tubman was treated to a four-hour talk with Kennedy, a visit to the National Zoo (Tubman...
...American parents are more strict. It makes Americans more immature... I'm more mature than an American girl college student...