Word: argumentativeness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interviewed by Russian newsmen. Jotting it all down in separate notebooks, Harriman and Thayer spent long hours each evening disputing their impressions. When at last an article was ripe, Thayer would retire to hammer out a first draft behind a locked door, later return to defend it in heated argument over whether "entered a door" should be "went through a door," whether the Angara River was "blocked," "breached" or "dammed." Finally, he would dictate the approved version over a fading phone line to Moscow, for transmission to N.A.N.A. newspaper clients...
WASHINGTON DAILY NEWS : The principal argument against Mr. Strauss has been that some Senators do not like...
When it comes to steel industry profits, a key point in the argument, management and labor find it even harder to agree on the facts. Last week the Government announced that the steel industry's near-record first-quarter profits of $374 million after taxes represented 11.7% of stockholders' equity, higher than in U.S. manufacturing as a whole (10% of equity); second-quarter earnings are expected to be even rosier. But the Government's report also pointed out that over the last ten years steel has not done as well as other industries, and steel companies complain...
...retirement income for its own. the A.M.A. hewed to its traditional individual-enterprise line. Though majorities of physicians polled in several states have voted in favor of bringing doctors under compulsory social security coverage, the House of Delegates voted down a Pennsylvania resolution favoring it. Main argument: doctors who kept on practicing after the age of 65 could not collect benefits until they quit, or until 72; doctors should be able to make better personal plans for retirement...
...Electric Co. from supplying turbines for the Greers Ferry Dam in Arkansas, even though English Electric's bid was 17% lower than the contract winner, Baldwin Lima-Hamilton Corp. (TIME, Feb. 2). Last week the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization ruled, in effect, that the national security argument can be carried...