Word: cater
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican party, Javits has been under constant pressure from party leaders to shift his views to the right. This pressure was neutralized during his six years of Congress by the demands of his liberally-oriented district in Manhattan. But in the race for the Senate, Javits must cater to the conservative voters in up-state New York. To win the election, Javits will probably need an up-state margin of 600,000. And so he has embraced Nixon, supported Dulles, and stood firmly behing Benson and Wilson...
...have long violated the Sabbath with impunity. In many cities where Sunday-closing ordinances are enforced, merchants sidestep the law by selling from branches outside city limits. Rather than turn away customers, businessmen in such cities as Newark and Little Rock, Ark. have repeatedly paid fines and continued to cater to Sunday trade...
January's in June. Cried one anguished woman: "Never in season can one find the clothes one needs. Bathing suits in July -never! Winter cocktail clothes after Christmas-never! You lose valuable trade because you do not cater to people when they need things." For this, manufacturers last week blamed the department stores: "The store buyer doesn't think ahead. If it's a cold spring, she gets panicky, concentrates on getting rid of what she had, and won't reorder fresh stock early." The stores blamed manufacturers: "Try to reorder anything in May. The manufacturers...
...second proposal calls for the elimination of "substitute" items from daily menus, concentrating more effort and money on the main course, thereby eliminating waste. "They might not have as much surplus grease to sell," declared Theodore O. Moskowitz '58, Committee Chairman, "but they will cater less to finicky students...
...dependent on the workings of the democratic process in America and elsewhere, we must despair of it. The inherent characteristics of democratic government, they insist, make it impossible for nations so governed to choose the hard course. Those in power, in order to maintain their positions, must continuously cater to the domestic interests and whims of a fragile and shifting numerical majority. Inevitably these interests, even in critical periods such as this, will reflect. short-term needs and desires which cannot be adjusted responhibly to long-term objectives...