Word: strives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME'S reporters and writers strive mightily, within the framework of their U.S. upbringing, to understand and report accurately on the newsmaking Latin Americans. This week, for an exhaustively reported story on a major Latin American country and its new President, illustrated with eight pages of color photographs, see THE HEMISPHERE, The Paycheck Revolution...
...takes dedication and determination to strive for a balanced budget in late autumn 1958. In a nation that only lately climbed out of a steep recession, and that has elected a Congress likely to be less cost-conscious than its predecessor, the goal seems almost unattainable. Even if the Administration is right in its prediction that the economy's upward surge will push federal income in fiscal 1960 to an alltime record of $75 billion, a deficit of more than $4 billion still looms if spending stays at this year's level of $79.2 billion. And the pressures...
...main problems facing the Catholic Church in Latin America are a shortage of priests and heavy inroads by Protestantism. To overcome them, Archbishop Antonio Samore, a member of the Vatican State Secretariat, described a "positive" approach. "We are not against anyone or anything," he said. "We just strive to strengthen our own faith, to increase the number of our priests and to make their work more effective...
Viet Nam. Raw material producers who suffer from falling prices should not simply increase production of their rice, tin or rubber. They should boost quality, not quantity: rubber producers, for example, should strive to make their product more competitive against synthetic rubber...
...well calls "a potful of fancy-Dan wordage," there are many stretches of an astonishing Louisiana dialect, for which Author Keyes declares herself indebted to a lady friend (who has worked for the Opelousas daily World and has an "almost infallible ear for the nuances of local speech"). "I strive to please," Novelist Keyes confesses. To a striving author, Victorine should be worth its weight in gold slippers...