Word: youthfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...make businessmen and bankers look on him as the white hat in a kind of financial western: the new gun who arrived in Washington to rally the citizenry against the enemy, much as the Texas Rangers rode in to restore law-and-order in the Borger of his youth. He quickly put the Fed on a course of raising interest rates sharply, to hold back the inflationary growth of money supply and to keep dollars at home. In private debates and public remarks, Miller has pleaded with the White House, of which he is independent, to launch a determined anti...
...Michael Blumenthal, now Treasury Secretary, was then picking up odd jobs in Shanghai as the son of expatriate Germans. The two did not meet until much later in the U.S., but they relish trading reminiscences about the China of their youth...
...necessary even to fight-with their hands." In keeping with the Isle of Pines' conversion from an agricultural community (and prison colony) into a kind of incubator for Cuba's post-revolutionary generation, the local authorities want to change its name to the Isle of Youth...
...late July and early August, Havana will be host to 16,000 Communist and left-wing students from around the world (including 400 Americans) at a World Youth Festival dedicated to the theme of "anti-imperialist solidarity." Brigades of volunteers from the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, as Cuba's auxiliary political watchdog apparatus is called, are working six days a week to spruce up the capital for what promises to be a giant pep rally on behalf of national liberation movements-and, by implication, on behalf of Cuba's own policy of armed intervention...
...African involvement has offered Cuba a kind of safety valve for its burgeoning problem of youth unemployment...