Word: nothingness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Rigid central planning destroys local initiative and leads to costly waste. One concrete example: at least 30% of Poland's total cement production is "lost" through careless handling and theft. Trainloads of raw materials disappear for months at a time, often bringing factories to a standstill. Says a scornful...
Hua might yet prevail and be reconfirmed as Party Chairman. Still, China's leaders were doing nothing to dispel stories that he had lost power. National newspapers lavishly displayed an article that was filled with oblique but unmistakable criticisms of Hua. "The party's prestige is not high...
It should be said too that there are public figures whose bearing simply does not lend itself to nicknames. It is hard to imagine that the French would ever refer to their leader as Val. And Mrs. Gandhi is surely nothing but Indira to her friend or two.
Giscard has acted adroitly to increase that control. Besides appointing close associates to head the broadcast networks, he has helped Political Ally Robert Hersant get government-facilitated loans to acquire control of three Parisian newspapers, France-Soir, Le Figaro and L 'Aurore. Their combined circulation of 1.06 million makes...
Already the press is getting used to the way the President-elect-at least before taking office-stays in seclusion, says nothing or prudently contents himself with brief, noncommittal, cameo appearances. In his silence, others, perhaps hoping to speak for him or eager to influence him, fill the gap. The...