Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over-why not realize we are in the Sputnik Age? No wonder the Russians are ahead...
...leaders on Capitol Hill curbed the temptation to plunge into tax cuts. The Senate even voted down, 71 to 14, a premature tax-cut measure urged by Illinois Democrat Paul Douglas (see Democrats). But Democratic chiefs in both Houses and Administration voices made it clear that tax cuts lay ahead unless March statistics showed unemployment shrinkage...
...onetime executive partner in the Chicago accounting firm of Alexander Grant & Co., who cheerfully took an 80% salary cut to go to work in Washington at $17,500 a year, was Post Office Department financial troubleshooter before he signed up with the Budget Bureau last September. The big job ahead for Maurice Stans: preparing for the budget year beginning July 1959 without knowing whether he can count on boom or bust...
...than the sum of the menacing spikes that jut from his body. On trundles the armadillo, scarcely noticing a wide hole in the ground. From the hole run two telephone lines; a few feet away, they connect to a pair of phones lying in a ditch. The armadillo scratches ahead. The lizard leaps from a rock. The telephones are mute. For an instant, the desolate scene seems like the end of the world...
...Herald Tribune Publisher Ogden R. ("Brownie") Reid, he wrote: "I feel a little bit as though we were a species of minor Greek chorus, which was separating just as the drama approached some sort of climax. But I agree with Stew that his own career has to come ahead of the interest of being a Greek chorus...