Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...compromise to the cold realities of politics. He called for "a much larger police force, enjoined to lust after the apprehension of criminals even as politicians lust after the acquisition of votes." He said he would try to help Negroes "by sounder means than undifferentiated infusions of politically deployed cash," and he scorned the idea of helping the Negro "by adjourning our standards as to what is and what is not the proper behavior for human beings...
...their trap. Their suggestion: Why not hand control of the money over to the Eurocrats, creating Europe's first federal treasury? If that sounded too much like taxation without representation, then why not give the European Parliament-even more supranationally inclined than the Eurocrats-a hand on the cash...
...division, complained: "There are some manufacturers who are resisting passing on the excise-tax reductions to customers by contemplating raising their base prices." Whether they pass it on or not, businessmen were plainly pleased by the excise cut, figured that it would make more than small change at the cash registers...
...companies now have more than 3,000 subsidiaries in Europe, and the percentage of big ones bossed by local citizens has risen to 40% in Italy, 55% in Britain and 65% in West Germany. Such giants as Woolworth, Singer, Eastman Kodak and National Cash Register make a point of manning all their top posts with Europeans. More and more Europeans are being promoted to high commands in Jersey Standard, Corn Products, Socony Mobil and U.S. Rubber. What these companies have brought forth is an urbane and multilingual group of managers who combine European emotions with U.S. business methods- and make...
...From then on," says Phyllis McGinley, "it never occurred to me that I wasn't going to be a poet." The conviction spurred her to enter a university competition offering cash prizes for the best poetry, short stories and essays. For two years running, Contestant McGinley, submitting pseudonymous compositions in all three categories, won all the honors-and all the money. She also began sending poetry to New York magazines, and in 1929, after some of them were bought, she invaded this receptive market in person...