Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...human society can endure without agreement on certain fundamentals, e.g., why man is in the world, what is his purpose here and how he should try to fulfill it. In the 20th Century, this agreement is weak and fuzzy. Scientists have contributed to the moral confusion...
...which the ascendance of science and the decline of philosophy had had in the world. More & more people, said Stace, have come to believe that morality is merely relative, with one man's view of right & wrong considered as valid as another's. The consequent lack of agreement on moral standards has created impossible conditions for society. Stace's own, wooly-minded attempt at a solution: a new kind of morality found in the "psychological laws" of human behavior...
Secretary of State Dean Acheson conferred on Germany with both France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman and Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin. Some progress toward agreement was reported, especially in the talks with Schuman, who has consistently taken a more reasonable view than French officials in Germany. The main question under discussion with the French is their insistence on breaking Germany up into small semi-autonomous governmental units...
...cost to the U.S. might prove large. As long as wheat support prices are higher than the pact price, the Federal Government would have to pay the difference. In effect, it would subsidize the exports. Furthermore, importing nations would be required to take their maximum quotas under the agreement only when the price fell to the minimum. As long as the price was above that, they could buy from Russia or Argentina, if those nations wanted to undersell the U.S. Considering all this, the agreement seemed to be what the Wall Street Journal called it: a case of "heads they...
...Shipping, which handles marine rating for nearly all U.S. flag vessels. Last year Lloyd's and J. Lewis Luckenbach, president of A.B.S., worked out a deal that would divide the world's multimillion-dollar classifying business between them. The A.B.S. dropped its 32-year-old working agreement with the British Corporation Register of Shipping, Lloyd's biggest rival in the United Kingdom, and arranged to dovetail its operations with Lloyd's instead...