Word: axioms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inquiring about diagnosis (26), present status (34) and treatment prescribed (46). Doctors have long sought simplified, standardized forms (some have even printed their own), but most insurance companies refuse to budge. Smaller companies seem particularly addicted to longer questionnaires ("The smaller the firm, the bigger the form," is an axiom in the profession). Doctors are also annoyed by some companies which, when they are unsatisfied with physicians' replies, corral neighbors to report on patients in an effort to avoid paying claims...
...hemispheric axiom has it that when a dictator falls afoul of Washington, his opponents are emboldened to try to topple him. This year, Trujillo is in bad grace with the U.S., which officially suspects that the Dominicans hired U.S. Pilot Gerald Lester Murphy to carry out the airplane-kidnaping of Trujillo Critic Jesús de Galindez from Manhattan 16 months ago. But to Trujillo's satisfaction, the axiom has not worked. The Dominicans are as docile as ever. The educated few who know of the Galindez-Murphy case (in some instances from Puerto Rican radio broadcasts) publicly refuse...
...Ohio, five-time Governor Frank Lausche once again proved the truth of the local axiom that "nobody likes Lausche but the people" by capturing for the Democrats the state's second Senate seat, defeating a hard-working latter-day Ikeman, Senator George Bender...
...Grow or Die." How well the new cars go over may well determine the company's whole future. No one knows better than President L. L. ("Tex") Colbert the one inviolate axiom of the auto industry: Grow or die. So far, Chrysler has slowly been weakening. After the poor 1954 model, which dropped Chrysler's share of the market; to a bare 12.9%, a succession of new designs and higher-powered cars in 1955 and 1956 have only won back a 16.5% share of the market. But in 1957, Chrysler will be loaded for bear. Cautiously, Colbert himself...
...also a new twist on the old historians' axiom: the more luxury, the quicker a nation degenerates. This was true enough in Babylon, Greece, Rome, Bourbon France and Czarist Russia, where luxury perched atop a pyramid of misery, ignorance and hopeless poverty-Fabergé eggs sprouting from a dungheap. But in the U.S. luxury has come to mean not a declining economy but an expanding one. It is not a historic nightmare but a large part of the American dream. In the words of Ben Franklin, who saw ahead of his time: "Is not the hope...