Word: teste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first test of French President Georges Pompidou's electoral promise of "continuity and opening" was the makeup of his Cabinet. It had to appease Gaullist hard-liners in the National Assembly while satisfying non-Gaullists' expectations of an authentic new look. The litmus was the fate of the general's Foreign Minister, Michel Debre, an unbending and abrasive loyalist and to both sides a symbol of extreme Gaullism. Pompidou persuaded him to accept the prestigious but politically insensitive Ministry of Defense. Then the President put together a Cabinet to his own taste, composed of twelve Gaullists...
Chances for a Deal. The Nixon Administration has committed itself so deeply to textile quotas, however, that the issue has become a test of its credibility. During his campaign, Nixon promised Southern voters that he would press for quotas, and now many businessmen believe that he owes them some import protection. The Administration has threatened to take unilateral action if it cannot persuade Japan and other trading partners to accept "voluntary" quotas. U.S. action could involve the revoking of textile-tariff concessions that have been granted in the past, or Congress could legislate quotas. Either way, a worldwide trade...
...purchasers rather than as tenants. We must shape the physical design and administrative procedures of public housing to make that possible. We should shift our thinking about management responsibilities to provide for cooperative management or even ownership of publicly-subsidized housing by tenants. We should be wiling to test new methods of producing techniques, scattered-site development, the "turnkey" method of housing built more quickly and efficiently by private builders and then sold to the housing Authority upon completion. All of these possibilities are before us now in the form of authorizing legislation. We have only to use them imaginatively...
...present Congressional moderation, however, may not last very long. The crucial test will probably come late this summer, when college-related appropriations bills come up for hearings. Tacking on riders to appropriations bills is one of Congress's favorite means of action, and the technique will undoubtedly be tried on college bills this year...
...Mathematics proficiency test for Physics S-1, Emerson Hall...