Word: caps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...management's offer. It was the propitious moment, for each side now was groggy with fatigue-or beer-and before long each side accepted the compromise-a 7% wage hike spread over 18 months (current average hourly wage: about 77?The feather was in Ludwig's cap, and he knew it. "It was a restless night," he beamed to cheering Christian Democratic Union deputies next day. "You know that I put all my prestige on the scale." The C.D.U. lost no time putting their hero's new prestige to use. Worried over a string of C.D.U. defeats...
...grey-gowned figure in charge looks like a visitor from another planet. Between skull cap and mask, his head sprouts a startling pair of binocular spectacles. His hands move with confident precision and his even voice snaps with authority, but his very words seem part of an alien language-a communication designed solely for his colleagues...
...have you killed," but pleaded that he was only trying to scare Nkrumah. When the testimony ended, the three white-wigged judges filed out, spent another two weeks preparing a 6,000-word decision. When they returned last week, the chief justice paused somberly to don a black cap before pronouncing sentence, signal that the verdict would be death by hanging...
...Diefenbaker announced a program of mild austerity at home and a massive borrowing from abroad, claiming that the crisis had become serious "only in very recent days.'' The U.S., Britain and the International Monetary Fund threw a line of credit and a loan for $1.05 billion. To cap his program, Diefenbaker slapped surcharges atop Canada's tariffs-in effect, punishing the neighbors that had bailed Canada out. But the flighty capital returned, and Canada's economy-aided by devaluation on the one hand and high tariffs on the other-turned in an impressive growth rate...
Finally, the report concludes that the weight of the eyewitness testimony, the evidence of the cap, the "consciousness of guilt" evidence, and the ballistics testimony proved that Sacco was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Then it weights the evidence and comes to the frustrating conclusion that "On the whole, we are of opinion that Vanzetti was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt." "On the whole" and "beyond a reasonable doubt" simply do not seem compatible...