Word: build
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President, promised that elections would follow. As the campaign began, he made it clear that he was his own favorite candidate. To improve his image he shed one of his wives, toned down his mercurial ways, and surrounded himself with topnotch advisers. Over the months, he went on to build a reputation as a firm-minded reformer by cleaning up the Communist-run tin union and creating a rare political stability...
...reasons are several. Competition from abroad has eased, as U.S. steelmakers have improved their production techniques. Other steel consumers have moved in where autos used to reign. Example: Railroads plan to build 90,-000 new freight cars this year, against about 65,000 in 1965. In smaller measure, the steel industry is benefiting from an all-out drive to use its products as substitutes for copper, in everything from plumbing to refrigerator tubing. Reason: copper prices have been driven sky-high by copper-rich countries, such as Chile and Zambia, cashing in on a world shortage...
...goes along with the split. It ought to. Danish beer is taxed at home more heavily than any other beer in Europe, and last year, before the profits were divided, the government took its own share of $90 million. Above all, the friendly competition has helped Carlsberg and Tuborg build up the exports that the country vitally needs...
...same time Adams has tactical advantages over Hughes. There was no war in 1962; consequently it was harder to convince voters of the importance of the peace issue. Hughes, moreover, had no base from which to build his campaign. Adams has an outfit called Mass Pax, or Political Action for Peace, the outgrowth of the Hughes organization. Unlike Hughes, Adams is running as a Democrat, and his campaign is directed toward the September 13 Democratic Primary when he will oppose Mayor John Collins and former Governor Endicott Peabody. Hughes, an independent, faced stiffer November opposition in the form of Edward...
...from its 20% slice of the mass paperback market in the U.S. Another Shimkin word is "biblio-therapeutic," meaning books that help people. With such books, notably Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People (12 million copies sold in all editions), Shimkin has helped to build Simon & Schuster, in which he is a partner, into one of the nation's heartiest publishers specializing in hardback books...