Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dose. Looking around for assistants to help him in the cure, Morrison found most New Orleans businessmen painfully aware of the illness, anxious to help, and even ready to accept the cost in time and taxes of the medicines he prescribed. The New Orleans antidote...
...Path Down. In his early days, Rojas' peacemaking might have worked. After he overthrew Dictator Laureano Gómez in 1953, he was hailed as the savior of Colombia. But one year later Rojas' tragic flaw-the strongman's inability to accept criticism-began to show through. With a heavy hand he began censoring newspapers, finally suppressed Bogotá's two leading dailies, El Tiempo and El Espectador. From there his path led only downward. His soldiers and cops shot down political opponents and students. By spending uncounted millions on arms and post-exchange luxuries aimed...
When Poland's Stalinist government fell in October 1956 and Wladyslaw Gomulka took power, he lost no time in sending representatives to the cardinal to discuss the conditions of his return. Now Wyszynski was in a position to dictate the terms on which he would accept his freedom, for Gomulka needed Wyszynski's tremendous personal authority to keep Poland's anti-Red fever under control. The cardinal's bargaining power was nothing less than the Soviet army that might roll over Poland if things went out of control...
...Because of the low birth rate in the '30s, the proportion of men in their 20s (the training age) has dropped drastically, while the total work force has rapidly increased. Unions are also at fault. Some, still thinking in Depression terms, limit the number of apprentices they will accept for training. More important, the emphasis of industrial unions on raising the pay of the unskilled has discouraged workers from learning a trade, especially since apprentice wages are far less than unskilled pay. The skilled worker's pay advantage over the unskilled dropped from 80% in 1932 to about...
...establishment of a demilitarized zone would make eventual German reunification possible. Russia will certainly not accept Germany's unification as a member of NATO, but she would more readily permit a neutral unfied Germany...