Word: timidation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Japanese are, to the highest degree, both aggressive and unaggressive, both militaristic and resentful of being pushed around, loyal and treacherous, brave and timid, conservative and hospitable to new ways. They are terribly concerned about what other people will think of their behavior, and they are also overcome by guilt when other peon $49 pie know nothing of their missteps. Their soldiers are disciplined to the hilt but $4.0 are also insubordinate...
...finely tuned fiscal package. Much of the surplus, for instance, is predicated on deferring a cost-of-living pay raise now scheduled for federal employees. Though economic conservatives will cheer what Nixon calls "prudent policy," critics can be expected to fault his attack on social and environmental problems as timid. Nixon cites "economic credibility" as a goal of his Administration, but the tiny size of his estimated budget surplus is likely to raise skeptical eyebrows both in and out of Congress. Some economists contend that the U.S. needs a budget surplus four times that large in order to check inflation...
...funds and other difficulties. The lower classes, who account for much of the city's population of 5,000,000, still believe whatever the government radio tells them; the bureaucrats who owe their jobs to the regime at least pretend to do so. But even the fellahin and timid clerks must eventually begin to wonder at the insouciance with which Israeli pilots have begun to bomb around their capital...
Radical but Timid. This disappointing performance has set off a fierce debate in the Soviet press over the adequacy and execution of the reforms, introduced with much fanfare in 1965, that were intended to bring more flexibility into the ponderous, centrally controlled Soviet economy. In a secret speech last month, Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev severely criticized the economy's performance. Last week Pravda, reflecting his words, conceded that the Soviet economy is in serious trouble because of widespread waste, bureaucratic mismanagement, buck-passing and loafing workers-despite the reforms...