Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lloyd summed up the mood of the conference Friday when he told confidants: "It would be wrong to claim progress on Berlin. But I have a feeling in my bones that we will get an agreement of sorts in the end--maybe a small one but enough to take us to the summit...
...talking about politics," he said recently. "I'm talking about the good of the country, and I'll fight it out on those terms." Political opponents, especially those who wear their ambitions on their sleeves, find it dangerous to criticize a President with a clear claim to serving the national interest without hope of electoral reward. If, for example, Democratic presidential hopefuls were to launch a plainly partisan attack, the President, says a White House aide, could "make them look cheap-simply cheap." And it is from that same vantage point of obviously working for the good...
...honorable exceptions, has shown little fire about the affair, moving Paul Johnson to write heatedly in the left-wing New Statesman comparing Hola to concentration camps and British people's apathy to that of Germans under Hitler-only worse, for Germany had the excuse of press censorship to claim ignorance of what was going on. The London Times declared that "it is lawful to use such force as is necessary to prevent escape, but not to compel unwilling men to work," and concluded that the government-sanctioned Cowan Plan "led directly to the fatal result...
...charge includes the cost of selling out as well as buying, is the price of broad diversification and professional management. If an investor with $4,200 (the average size of a mutual fund holding) tried to buy a diversified portfolio of stocks on the New York Stock Exchange, claim the funds, he would easily have to pay 8% to get in and out of the market...
...first year of a $100-a-month ten-year contractual plan is docked for about $500, or half the entire ten-year commission, in the first year. If the investor drops out in the first year, he loses most of his $500. The funds claim that this big "front-end load" is an incentive to steady saving, but some funds think that such juicy commissions are completely unjustified. Says John Dalenz, vice president of Calvin Bullock, Ltd.: "Why not give those salesmen a blackjack and let them take your entire wallet...