Word: basics
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...powerful industrial nation, China was still what it had always been-a country whose very livelihood depended on agriculture. Agricultural exports are still the major source of the foreign exchange that the Communists desperately need to buy machinery and tools. That recognition had brought about, almost unnoticed, a basic shift in Peking's official line...
...effort seems to have been embarrassing and painful to Prokofiev. As he had promised, he did weave a number of tuneful folk motifs into his usual sophisticated, modernist composition, even included a vintage Red army marching song. But the composer seemed somehow unable to conceal his treasonable pessimism and basic disbelief in the opera. When his hospitalized hero grabs a nurse and gaily dances on artificial legs to prove to doctors his fitness for combat, the music is merely polite and detached, fails to milk the emotion of the scene in approved Soviet fashion. Still, as Pravda's music...
...also said that all Soviet students going into meteorology, and presumably several other branches of science, receive a strong basic education in fundamental mathematics and physics. He felt that American colleges and universities, except for Harvard, do not use this approach, with the result that the Soviets have "far more" physical meteorologists with adequate preparation in basic math and physics than does...
Recognizing that the world is waiting to see what the U.S.'s next move will be Alexander added that any change "probably should wait until our balance of payments position shows more clearly the results of our buckling down to the basic Problems. In that favorable setting, repeal the gold reserve requirement will be for what it is-a change to a more realistic statement of the strength of our gold position...
...which snorted that "we hardly think that changing the rules would be a step in the improvement of our monetary framework." But most Washington economists wholeheartedly backed the change, were concerned only with the psychological effects it might have at the present time not with the idea's basic soundness. It already has some influential backers. The International Monetary Fund in 1958 recognized the advantages of reducing or eliminating the gold reserve requirement and Roy Reierson, vice president of Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co., proposed abolition of the requirement last year. The reason for questioning the reserve requirement...