Word: basically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ministers also settled the basic problems that had blocked an Austrian peace treaty. The West gave in to a Russian demand for $150 million, payable in six years. Russia would not claim any additional "German assets" in Austria, but would keep the ones she had already seized. In exchange, the Russians with drew their support of a Yugoslav claim to some Austrian territory and reparations. The Yugoslavs would long ago have given up their claim had Russia not deliberately kept it alive for bargaining purposes...
Politics & Power. Despite basic agreement on principle, there is wide divergence on the subject of practical politics. "While we fully agree," says Barrois, "on the danger of a godless society, a godless state, and a godless school, we strenuously object to [Catholics'] jockeying for strategic positions so as to impose their own policies upon the nation . . . Rome has been particularly zealous in the fight against communism. But . . . consciously or unconsciously, she has never kept a clear distinction between communism as a system of economics, the materialistic ideology on which it thrives, and the pressure methods used to assure...
...same way, many a company which had been trying to discover the bottom on its "back-to-normal" slide seemed to have found it-and to be starting the upward climb again. In industrial alcohol, a basic raw material for many manufacturers, the surplus had caused prices to toboggan from 87? a gallon to 21?, but by last week the turn seemed to have come. Pub-licker Industries, Inc., a big U.S. maker of industrial alcohol, thought demand had picked up enough so it could raise prices 8½? to 11? a gallon. Even in textiles, softest of the soft...
...Basic Dichotomy...
...professional actor in the shifting cast is the judge. None of the others even try to memorize lines. Instead, they are rehearsed over & over in incidents gathered from court stenographers, judges, police reporters, detectives and the files of the Better Business Bureau. Lord encourages them to act out the basic drama in their own words...