Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guide them in their credit policies. Instead of handing out fat subsidies as in the past, the Czech central bank will charge 6% interest on capital loans-a price that should "make plant managers all the more concerned to develop in the right direction. Already the Czechs have established Western-style business-administration schools to teach the new economic skills to managers who in the past were totally unaware of even the world market prices of goods they were producing. "If they don't adapt," says Sik ominously, "they will be replaced...
...doctrines now being questioned are embed ded in Western man's heritage and, in the manner in which they help interpret sin and guilt, goodness and redemption, they have be come part of his psychic life. They have meaning, often unconscious, for a great majority of humanity - and profound relevance even in 20th century life...
...desert air is pushed through the mountain passes (one of which, the Santa Ana canyon, gave the wind its name), where it picks up speed before roaring out into the Los Angeles basin at velocities as high as 100 m.p.h. The remainder flows over the mountains and down the western slopes. Descending toward low-lying coastal areas, the air is compressed and heated-five degrees for every 1,000 ft. of descent. As a result, the Santa Anas often bring 100° temperatures with them-though temperatures in the Great Basin where they started may have been only...
While U.S. employers have reason to complain about soaring labor costs, the fact is that wages have been rising much faster in other major nations, notably those of Western Europe. Between the 1958 start of the Common Market and 1965, U.S. workers' pretax wages went up 14%. During that seven-year period, pretax wages jumped 25% in Italy, 29% in France, 40% in Denmark, 41% in The Netherlands, and 53% in West Germany...
...four make war on Raza's remote desert stronghold is the raw meat of The Professionals, and there hasn't been a livelier western whoop-up since Villain Palance bared fang and claw against Shane. Only once does the action slow down, during a gum battle between Palance and Lancaster, who seem to be firing off philosophical asides about the life of violence mainly because they need a rest. Most of the dialogue has a whiplash sting, and since the scenario is chiefly concerned with ambushes and train holdups and muscle-hard suspense, there is seldom time...