Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...developed that we had come at a bad moment. The Coke company had just warned the strikers to "keep moving" and had sent for a policeman to keep the picketers off the grass around the building. In retaliation, the union had countered by refusing to allow employees to go home in yellow Coke trucks. "It's this kind of thing that causes violence," the local president warned...
...determine the future of the entire Arabian peninsula, perhaps of the whole Western World, centering in arid Iraq, cradle of civilization, womb of nationalism, cocoon of Communism's conspiratorial caprices, where the stupendous clash of incompatible ideologies generates a maelstrom of incredible tautological complexity which, if only time would allow, I would be delighted to analyze down to the most delicate detail, but with the grader's forbearance I shall now go on to the next question...
...captives. Urrutia declared that they would be tried by revolutionary courts "in the same manner as war criminals were tried in Germany." About 300 others, Batista supporters, including the former boss of organized labor, Eusebio Mujal, crowded into Havana embassies. Urrutia said that Cuba would respect political asylum and allow the refugees to leave...
Europe itself is the subject most painstakingly studied. Field trips-to Rome for art and architecture, to Berlin for political science-fill in the outlines of classroom lectures. Three-day weekends during the summer and fall allow long freelance forays. "There was." according to one report, "a definite trend to Lederhosen" Wrote Friedrich W. Strothmann, head of Stanford's modern languages department and, with General Studies Chairman Robert A. Walker, originator of the Landgut Burg school: the students typically "hop on a motorcycle Thursday afternoon and come back Sunday from Venice and Salzburg after having seen a Mozart opera...
Economists have long known that the gross national product, the nation's No. 1 economic growth indicator, has a serious flaw. It does not allow for inflation. When prices and production are both swooping up, the G.N.P. greatly overstates the rate of growth of the U.S. economy. When production sags, it understates the drop, since prices tend to hold up. To counteract these price distortions, the Commerce Department brought out a new indicator. Henceforth, along with the regular quarterly G.N.P. expressed in dollars of current value, the department will publish a G.N.P. showing what the actual change would have...