Word: system
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...essentially alone, we established a basis for belief in the resiliency of the economy. In their economic decisions, people operate on the basis of belief-belief in what is going to happen. We must not impair their confidence in the future or in the capacity of their economic system to deal with most of the problems that will arise...
...Advanced Military Studies fortnight ago: "If France should have to fight a war, then it must be its own war. It must defend itself by itself and in its own fashion . . . Naturally, if the case demands, French defense will be coupled to that of other countries, but . . . the system of integration which prevailed during a certain epoch...
...traditional lexicon, there are also the Slavs, the Germans and the Latins-a system of categories that tends to regard as transitory such political systems as Communism...
...assistance because the cost of preserving the treasures would be "exceptionally great." How great, the world discovered this week from the report of a UNESCO investigating mission, headed by U.S. Archaeologist Dr. John Otis Brew. Abu Simbel and Philae, says the UNESCO report, can be safeguarded by a system of dikes, levees and protective dams at a cost of $64 million. If any more of the 15 major temples and historic sites located in the area to be flooded are also to be preserved, experts estimate that the cost might run as high as $100 million...
...imminent end of the official state of emergency under which Kenya has been ruled since the days of 1952, when the bloody Mau Mau uprising gripped the East African colony. For the revolt-infected tribes-the Kikuyu, Embu and Meru-it would mean the end of the passbook system that rigidly limited their travel, and the end of forced communal labor and mandatory residence in villages. For 3,000 prisoners still behind bars or barbed wire for revolutionary activity, it would mean freedom under a sweeping amnesty program; only a few score of the toughest terrorists, including Mau Mau Founder...