Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manifesto, but "the contrast between the extremes of wealth and poverty is sharper now" than when the Conservatives took power eight years ago. To remedy this state of affairs -the existence of which foreign observers frankly doubt-the Labor manifesto demanded an end to "the businessman's expense-account racket," called for a tax on capital gains and measures to block loopholes in the inheritance-tax laws...
TYPEWRITER MARKET is being captured overseas by West Germans, whose rugged, low-priced machines now account for one-third of all typewriter sales. U.S. makers, who had 50% of world market before World War II, have only 10% today...
...practice-Sabbath, dietary laws and all-which survived the rigors of three years at sea in the Navy and continued citizenship in the realms of gold. It also resulted in Author Wouk's latest book, This Is My God (Doubleday; $3.95), a warm, readable, and admirably clear account of the fundamentals of the Jewish faith...
...fact that contemporary science does not appear to require the concept of God to account satisfactorily for natural phenomena...
...theist and the atheist who both say more than they could possibly know. This is reflected in the factors they most frequently check as having principally contributed to their present religious attitude: "the fact that contemporary science does not appear to require the concept of God to account satisfactorily for natural phenomena" is the reason given more than any other, and of the three factors vying for second place, two are equally epistemic, "philosophical considerations, such as logical refutations of theoretical proofs of the existence of God" and "the irreconcilability of a literal interpretation of the Bible with certain established...