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Hands-off the economy was replaced by conscious guidance through planning -- the economic side of the constitutional revolution.
The biggest loss, of course, was the individual's lessened desire and ability to give his services to the growth of his company and our economy.
The word was that this too was part of an economy move on his part.
Sprinkel told conferees that the recent improvement in economic activity was not a `` temporary flash in the pan '' but the beginning of a substantial cyclical expansion that will carry the economy back to full employment levels and witness a renewal of our traditional growth pattern.
The unsatisfactory 1958-60 expansion, he said, was not due to inadequate growth forces inherent in our economy but rather to the adverse effect of inappropriate economic policies combined with retrenching decisions resulting from the steel strike.
A $25 billion advertising budget in an $800 billion economy was envisioned for the 1970s here Tuesday by Peter G. Peterson, head of one of the world's greatest camera firms, in a key address before the American Marketing Assn..
Although the economy was booming in the region, the business struggled and Lincoln eventually sold his share.
The artists seem to have been dominated by geometrical pattern and order, and this was improved when classical art brought a greater freedom and economy.
At the start of a new industrial age in the 18th century, it was believed that " people are the riches of the nation ", and there was a general faith in an economy that paid its workers low wages because high wages meant workers would work less.
Until independence, Armenia's economy was based largely on industry — chemicals, electronic products, machinery, processed food, synthetic rubber and textiles ; it was highly dependent on outside resources.
An eminent member of this school, Georges Duby, wrote in the foreword of his book Le dimanche de Bouvines that the history he taught relegated the sensational to the sidelines and was reluctant to give a simple accounting of events, but strived on the contrary to pose and solve problems and, neglecting surface disturbances, to observe the long and medium-term evolution of economy, society and civilisation.
It was founded between 650 and 625 BC by Gorgus, son of the Corinthian tyrant Cypselus, at which time its economy was based on farmlands, fishing, timber for shipbuilding, and the exportation of the produce of Epirus.
Their economy was based on farming, as well as hunting, fishing and gathering.
The economy was highly planned.
He succeeded his cousin Elagabalus upon the latter's assassination in 222, and was ultimately assassinated himself, marking the epoch event for the Crisis of the Third Century — nearly fifty years of civil wars, foreign invasion, and collapse of the monetary economy.
While in Puerto Rico slavery was 2 % of the population and blacks were less than 11 %, Cuba was 30 % black and slaves wee the backbone of the plantation economy.
Andronikos Komnenos ' arrival was soon followed by a massacre of the Latin inhabitants of the city, who virtually controlled the economy of the city, with the massacre resulting in the deaths of 80, 000 " Latins ", i. e. Westerners.
Prior to the 1950s, Alberta was a primarily agricultural economy, based on the export of wheat, beef, and a few other commodities.
The health of economy was closely bound up with the price of wheat.
It was not the first petroleum find in Alberta, but it was large enough to significantly alter the economy of the province ( and coincided with growing American demand for energy ).

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The proposition that special operations by the CIA in Saudi Arabia affected the prices of Soviet oil was refuted by Marshall Goldman — one of the leading experts on the economy of the Soviet Union — in his latest book.
** Inter-War, 1967 – 1973, adversely affected the performance of the economy and public sector role in import substitution.
The mainstream of the Polish society was not affected by the repressions of the Sanation authorities ; many enjoyed the relative prosperity ( the economy improved between 1926 and 1929 ) and supported the government.
In the post-war period, Italy was transformed from an agricultural based economy which had been severely affected by the consequences of World War II, into one of the world's most industrialized nations, and a leading country in world trade and exports.
Therefore, three wealthy business men Ibrahim Al-Mudhaf, Helal Al-Mutairi, and Shamlan Ali bin Saif Al-Roumi ( brother of Hussain Ali bin Saif Al-Roumi ), led a protest against Mubarak by making Bahrain their main trade point, which negatively affected the Kuwaiti economy.
Some argue that by increasing the federal minimum wage, however, the economy will be adversely affected due to small businesses not being able to keep up with the need to subsequently increase all workers wages.
Another chronic problem is unreliable rainfall, which produces drought or sudden floods ; in 1995, the country's worst drought in 30 years forced Morocco to import grain and adversely affected the economy.
Preserved from the sound changes that affected the various spoken varieties, its economy of expression was greatly valued.
These decisions eventually affected the whole economy, forcing the nation to acquire external debts.
The modern mining, farming, and industrial sectors of the economy, controlled by the white minority, have affected traditional African society without transforming it.
Bad harvests, technical progress and the effects of the Eden Agreement signed in 1786 affected employment and the economy of the province.
As a result of its distance from the rest of the empire, Paraguay had little control over important decisions that affected its economy.
Since becoming independent from Britain in February 1948, the economy of the country has been affected by natural disasters such as the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and a number of insurrections, such as the 1971, the 1987-89 and the 1983-2009 civil war.
The economy was hit by a series of global and domestic economic problems and affected by terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka and the United States.
In the 1980s, Switzerland was affected by the hike in oil prices which resulted in a decrease of energy consumption until 1982 when the economy contracted by 1. 3 %.
However, poor climatic conditions and severe drought badly affected the agricultural sector, thus reducing its share in the economy to about 17 % of 2008 GDP, down from 20. 4 % in 2007, according to preliminary data from the Central Bureau of Statistics.
The city was also affected by a severe financial crisis and a steady decline in textiles, automobile and steel production, that led to a deep reorganization of its economy.
The new capitalist opportunities presented by the opening of the Russian economy in the late 1980s and early 1990s affected many people's interests.
One of Bligh's first actions was to use the colony's stores and herds to provide relief to farmers who had been severely affected by flooding on the Hawkesbury River, a situation which had disrupted the barter economy in the colony.
In the case of the United States, industrialisation of agriculture has negatively affected the economy of small and middle-sised farms and strongly reduced the size of the rural labor market.
During the 1970s Crete became a major tourist destination for Greek and international tourists, something that gave a significant boost to the city's economy and affected the everyday life and the overall culture of the locals.
Among the country's biggest challenges are the privatization of costly and inefficient state-owned corporations, the retraining of hundreds of workers who will be affected by the change, decisions on ways to diversify tax revenues away from import tariffs and license fees, and opening the economy to international trade agreements.
One year before, in Brazil, low water level in hydroelectric plants combined with a lack of long-term investment in energy security forced the country to do an energy rationing program which negativelly affected the national economy.

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