Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will jealously defend a host of obsolete prerogatives and work practices that are the despair of man agement efforts at efficiency-and often of labor union leaders themselves. This year alone, Britain's auto industry, main stay of Prime Minister Harold Wilson's export push to bolster the sickly pound, has already been hit by 109 separate strikes equaling 645,000 lost work days- nearly every one an unauthorized, wildcat strike...
Long burdened by unimaginative management, obsolete equipment and growing competition, U.S. Steel two years ago launched a massive reorganization program to bolster its lagging sales and earnings. The world's biggest steelmaker chopped its executive payroll, closed down or consolidated overlapping divisions and offices and sharply increased its research and capital expenditures. The effort is only now beginning to pay off. U.S. Steel's first-half earnings, while still substantially below those of the mid-50s, were 38% higher than in 1964. Sales were up 26%. Last week, determined to maintain the new momentum, Board Chairman Roger Blough...
...able to frug in a sari while folding her hands in the traditional greeting of namaste. His home must be decorated in the best Western decor, but carry at least one careful Indian touch-perhaps a Mogul miniature or a divan with a brightly colored, hand-loomed bolster from the Punjab. Clubs are one British social heritage that upper-class Indians will not revolt against, perhaps because they were excluded in the days of the British raj. Today high-caste Indians are just as cutting to members of lesser castes as the Englishman was to "wogs." Indian intellectual life...
...benefit of that speculation. His brethren wrongly "put themselves in the place of the triers of fact," he said, and ignored the rule that extra care for due process is required in capital cases. When life is at stake, declared Judge Oppenheimer, citing several Supreme Court decisions to bolster his argument, elementary fairness demands full disclosure and cross-examination so that the jury itself may decide whether evidence is exculpatory. Though it failed to carry his court, Judge Oppenheimer's dissent may prove exculpatory if the Giles case is appealed further...
...play an ignoble part." Thus, speaking in 1928, Mr. Justice Holmes not only descried one of the most hotly debated social issues of the '60s, but foreshadowed as well the present-day philosophy of a Supreme Court that has done more than any other in U.S. history to bolster the rights of the individual against "ignoble" government power. In so doing, the court in recent years has wrought a revolution in criminal justice...