Word: betters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Does the combination of technical and economic problems mean that the electric passenger car will never come to be? Manufacturers do not seem to be discouraged. They are trying to develop better batteries while producing more and more electric golf carts, lift trucks, minibuses, industrial sweepers and postal delivery vans...
...public have an opportunity to see all his works in one place. The place was Hamburg's Kunsthalle, and the occasion the celebration of its 100th anniversary. The result was the realization that Meister Francke, an altar painter who worked in Hamburg around the year 1420, has far better claim than his later compatriots, Dürer, Cranach or Grünewald, to the title of Germany's first great artist...
...business to toe the line certainly cannot make strong statements on wages. A chief executive of one of the electrical-equipment manufacturing firms told me last October: "If I have a number from the Government on what a reasonable wage increase is for 1969, I will do better in my settlement in October 1969. That number will give me something to stand on, something to bargain from at the table...
ECKSTEIN: We are really sitting on a time bomb. The private economy would like to get going, and we had better look out that we don't turn it loose too fully or too quickly. If things go badly, and the Administration has to think about antirecession programs, the sensible thing would be to accelerate carefully thought-out proposals-such as the family-assistance program and revenue sharing-rather than rushing into a collection of usually unsuccessful, temporary antirecession measures, such as public works...
...powerful if oversimplified introduction to the political and moral morass of Vietnam, In the Year of the Pig is ultimately confounded by its own sense of outrage. Such a partisan representation of history is better known by the much-abused term propaganda, and its message gets across to those who come into the theater already in sympathy with what...