Word: buying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Self-control was not the Pope's solution. "There are necessary limitations to the freedom of the press," he said. "And these limitations should be strictly determined on the basis of law." Beyond that, the Pope proposed an embargo by offended Catholic readers: "Do not buy, do not believe, do not favor, and do not even mention this perverted press...
...become unemployed because their craftsmanship is no longer needed ? Make-work is not the answer, but surely management has a moral responsibility to assist such employees and place them in other jobs. Advances in technology cannot be stayed, but please observe that a willing worker unemployed cannot buy appliances, automobiles or even magazines...
...billion in 1958). Committed to a $90 million increase in welfare benefits (to $876 million) and unwilling to cut the $540 million for defense, Erlander had to abandon his tax-free dream. To the Riksdag he proposed a most unsocialistic solution: a 4% turnover (sales) tax on everything people buy except rent, prescription medicines, transport, fuel and packaging materials, plus a $45 million fuel...
...about manners and motives. He becomes acute enough to predict the exact course of his relatives' household skirmishing, and concludes therefore that he understands the skirmishers. His error does not matter until he begins analyzing Monsieur Martereau, a family friend-a steady, solid-seeming fellow who agrees to buy a house for the uncle. Martereau drives the young man to distraction by his oxlike simplicity. "Words are not for him what they are for me," the invalid muses, "thin protective capsules that enclose noxious germs-but hard, solid objects . . . it's useless to open them up . . we should...
MILITARY PROCUREMENT will be drastically changed after Jan. 1. The Army will buy all general supplies for the three military services, and the Navy will purchase all industrial materiel...