Word: basic
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Thus the panelists often found themselves debating a basic political and philosophical issue: Do the economic benefits of large size and efficiency outweigh the political risks of allowing power to be gathered in relatively few hands...
...last week Giant Food Inc., the Washington, D.C.-based supermarket chain, agreed under Government pressure to reduce prices on a number of items. Following up on a longstanding threat, COWPS also released the name of a company it considered a major price offender, Denver-based Ideal Basic Industries, Inc., one of the nation's largest cementmakers...
...stipulating that the document, in its final form, might be an agreement for approval by a simple majority of both houses instead of a treaty requiring ratification by two-thirds of the Senate. The Soviets never took the asterisk terribly seriously. To them, it was a symbol of the basic capriciousness of American democracy...
KUWAIT--Kuwait increased its surcharge on the basic price for a barrel of crude oil by 60 cents yesterday, a move that was expected after several oil-producing nations raised their surcharges last week...
Thus, speaking publicly in his capacity as chairman of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility. Mr. Calkins chose to confer legitimacy upon Ian Smith's "internal settlement." This type of political action by the Corporation exposes the fallacy of two basic premises in President Bok's argument against divestiture...