Word: willingness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind the Eight Ball. Heedless of the confusion, the two fighters worked hard with their fists. Basilio plodded forward, willing to soak up punishment as he pushed close enough to pound Robby around the short ribs. Sugar Ray stabbed and ran. Whenever the Chittenango (N.Y.) onion farmer caught him, Robby...
Labor unions, says Allen, "introduced undesirable rigidities into our cost structure" with the automatic cost-of-living hike that makes about 4,000,000 workers eligible for wage increases in 1958. Employers in turn "accepted such rigidities so long as selling prices could be increased without reduction of markets." Now...
The import restrictions cause hard feelings among the very nations to which the U.S. must look for future supplies-the Middle East, Canada. Venezuela. The pro-U.S. revolutionary junta in Venezuela begged the U.S. not to reduce quotas, lest Venezuelans take it as a sign of U.S. disapproval: Import...
Into the Vacuum. The main obstacle for MIDEC is a longstanding Arab suspicion of Western domination, which has wrecked most other Western attempts at private enterprise. Propagandists rail so effectively against U.S. aid that it is becoming almost a sin to accept it. U.S. Government economic-aid programs are frequently...
Bikes & Business. MIDEC's main function, says Rykens, will be to bring together Arab businessmen with capital to invest and Western outfits with the necessary know-how who will be willing to accept a minority interest. Tentatively. Rykens has set a ceiling of 40% for Western financial participation. MIDEC...