Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commission wrote 19 reports on 60 Government agencies that account for more than 95% of expenditures in the executive branch. Task forces made extensive investigations resulting in 362 recommendations. They were often concerned with details, e.g., eliminate free hospital and medical service for all merchant seamen, but the specifics were woven into a broad pattern. The $3,500 saved each month by having a civilian concern clean the General Accounting Office Building in Washington was used to dramatize a recurring theme-private industry should be used to perform services for the Government whenever possible...
Moscow's preparations were the most unusual. Pravda suddenly broke out with a full and reasonably objective account of President Eisenhower's last-week press conference, and in an editorial conceded that Ike was a peace-loving fellow, and "receives with satisfaction" his announcement that he would like the "Cold War" to be changed to a "battle for peace." Included in Pravda's summary were the President's remarks that there can be no real peace in the world until the satellite nations are freed,* stranger still. Ike's comment, when he was asked about...
...mail to the University of Alabama and then turned down when authorities found that they were Negroes won the first court decision against Jim Crow in the state's educational system. The women, ruled Federal Judge Harlan H. Grooms, "were denied admission to the university solely on account of their race and color." Henceforth, in accordance with the 14th Amendment, the university will have to admit qualified Negroes...
...What do we need to add to miracles to translate them into something possible to account for? Nothing we can do can make a miracle a probable event, but it may be possible to add some information to it to make it possible. One thing that needs to be added is a source of energy unknown to us in our biological and physiological sciences. In our Scriptures this source of energy is identified as the power...
...said Moody, coal's fringe benefits account for 31% of the industry payroll, thus help to price coal out of the competitive market. Results: the industry employs only 200,000 men today against 400,000 in 1946-47, produces 392 million tons against 630 million tons eight years ago, and "owners have gone out of business by the hundreds...