Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Further hindrances are the lighting and photography, both of which give the movie such a limited visual appeal that it seems highly unreal. Also the use of subtitles upon an often white background sometimes makes it difficult to follow the dialogue...
This policy plays Japan's conservative-owned papers into the hands of left-wing staffers, who have so discredited Premier Kishi that last month he made the face-losing appeal: "Is it all that bad-is there nothing good?" To many readers, Japan's industrious, irresponsible press has made it all seem that bad. Says one student: "We learn from the press that the conservatives are thinly disguised reactionaries and the socialists are weak and ineffectual. Perhaps the Communists are really the only people who have something...
...expected to appeal the ruling. If it stands, it will cost the U.S. millions in refunds to importers. More important, it may well put added pressure on the President to approve the often high Tariff Commission recommendations rather than give no relief...
...theory behind the big Treasury refunding launched last January, said Lanston,"was that it should be set up to appeal to the rife speculation existing throughout the country that interest rates were bound to move lower." To attract speculators and investors, the Treasury issued a 3½% longterm bond at par when the market yield on Government bonds was only 3^%. "This was equivalent to undercutting the market price by five whole points. Surely, the speculators weren't supposed to stand idly...
Criticizing Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson's recent appeal to non-bank institutions to check inflation by buying Government bonds, Lanston blamed the market collapse on heavy Government deficits. "Our non-bank financial institutions could not possibly absorb more than a small increment of the annual increase in federal spending. Our non-bank institutions could not save the Government from its folly-if they wanted...