Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kiesinger that Bonn must cease its new Ostpolitik, which aimed at establishing normal diplomatic and trade relations with the East bloc countries. Any West German initiative toward the East bloc would be regarded by Moscow as an aggressive action, said the Russian, and the West Germans would have to bear the consequences. The warning was especially unnerving, since in recent weeks the Soviets have stressed that the Soviet Union, like the other victorious powers in World War II, retains the right under Articles 53 and 107 of the United Nations Charter to intervene in West Germany if it feels that...
...subversion" is over, says Editor William F. Buckley Jr., and he almost seems to regret it. Gone are traitors of the magnitude of Alger Hiss, witnesses of the eloquence of Whittaker Chambers. Still, today's radical resurgence, thinks Buckley, has created a swarm of lesser subversives who bear close watching. To keep an eye on them, he has started a four-page newsletter, Combat, to be published twice a month...
...Mace unguents. A handful of hard-liners in the "violence bag" also carried golf balls studded with spikes, javelins made of snow-fence slats, aerosol cans full of caustic oven-cleaning fluids, ice picks, bricks, bottles, and clay tiles sharpened to points that would have satisfied a Cro-Magnon bear hunter...
...cuts could cost brokers some $150 million of their $2.5-billion-a-year commission income. Much of that money would then remain in the coffers of big institutional investors, indirectly enriching thousands of mutual-fund shareholders and pension-fund contributors. Brokers should be able to bear the loss: soaring trading volume has deluged Wall Street with profits. Last year the net earnings of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, the largest U.S. brokerage house, jumped 25% to $54.6 million, as its operating revenue, mostly from commissions, climbed to $369 million. Profits at Goodbody & Co. rose 78%. The volume surge means that...
...Death to Bear. It is as if. against all his impulses, Armah will not show pity-will not permit life to be more than the choice, as he puts it, of "what kind of death we can bear." With bafflement, almost with rage, he confronts "the man" he himself has created and asks: Was there not something "unnatural in any man who imagined he could escape the inevitable decay of life and not accept the decline into final disintegration...