Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under different circumstances the Federal Reserve might have chosen some less spectacular method, such as open-market operations to increase bank reserves and ease credit. It chose a flat cut in the rates it charges member banks on loans as a dramatic signal to businessmen that it has changed its policy. The increasing worry of economists is not the state of business itself but the businessman's view of business, which has turned alarmingly sour in recent months. Said White House Economic Adviser Gabriel Hauge: "Business is better than business sentiment." And for this lack of confidence the Federal...
Teller had to make an agonizing decision: either accept the G.A.C. verdict against his own passionate conviction that it endangered the nation, or fight the decision, with little chance of winning, and at the cost of ostracism by many of his fellow scientists. He chose to fight, joined forces with Atomic Energy Commissioner Lewis Strauss in the struggle that pitted them against popular Robert Oppenheimer and split the ranks of U.S. scientists for years afterward...
...Guillen chose as examples three love poems by the 16th century Spanish mystic, St. John of the Cross. These poems show that the union of the soul and the body must be approached by love and faith, not by reason, the Wellesley professor said...
...Life began in 1952 on six stations, and by the end of its first year was seen in 60 of the U.S.'s 67 TV cities. To assure professional polish, enterprising Lutherans hired an ad agency, some high-priced Hollywood scriptwriters and actors. As .its director it chose Dr. Gockel, who had given up his pastorate in Evansville, Ind. after suffering a psychosomatic paralysis of the vocal cords caused by a deepseated; fear that he was "not reaching his people...
...mark its birthday in typical Texas-tall style, the store traveled more than 4,000 miles across the Atlantic for foreign help in turning the city into one gigantic promotion spree. Naturally, Neiman's chose France, where the highest fashion comes from−and naturally France was only too glad to help Neiman's, where all good Texas millionaires outfit their wives...