Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Republican leaders and the NAM aim to "equalize" bargaining power--to restore the pristine purity in industrial relations which existed before the Wagner Act. They assume that the scales are weighted in favor of labor and that in order to secure "balance" it is necessary to abolish industry-wide bargaining, the closed shop and institute close government supervision of the finances of unions...
There seemed to be no way to achieve industrial peace except by giving labor what Sam Gompers once set as labor's chief aim: "More and more." In the spring of 1946 a kind of climax occurred. The great Railway Labor Act, hailed as the model machinery for peaceful settlements, broke down. An anguished and embarrassed Harry Truman demanded, among other things, the authority to draft the striking engineers and trainmen into the U.S. Army. And in the hysteria of the moment, 306 Congressmen agreed to that authoritarian expedient. The Senate, led by Taft, gutted the President...
...American college student consumes during the year. Next, what frame of mind are Americans seeking to instill in European students who are never too hungry to weight the bread before them alongside the future of their country or what they believe in? Is simple, vocal gratitude the sole aim of the effort? Does the American mentality ignore the psychology of charity so thoroughly that it would deem the American label on gift-food as the ultimate form of good-will missionarying? In this lone sense, Americans who demand formal notes of appreciation, or their equivalents in favors and concessions...
...plunged with unsparing effort into her postwar job as Education Minister. She said her aim was to educate young Britons for the atomic age: "It's a race between education and extinction." In recent weeks she had worried about herself, told some friends that she was "done for." But she still dashed about the country to local school meetings, kept four secretaries busy, wangled money, materials and manpower to build more schools...
...like baseball, its fastball bowlers, its control bowlers and those who specialize in slow, tricky teasers ("googlies"). The bowler gets up speed with a run of from, 10 to 50 feet, must not bend his elbow when delivering the ball. His chief aim is to knock down the batsman's wicket (see chart) for an out. The batsman, who defends the wicket, seldom tries to swat the ball out of the park (though over the fence, "a boundary," is an automatic six runs). He hopes to whack out a low grasscutter, since a ball caught...