Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...constant renegotiation also tends to undermine the profit incentive because the manufacturer knows that no matter how much he lowers costs, his profits will be taken away. The realistic system the Navy is now adopting comes down to this: the Government drives a hard price in the beginning and gives the manufacturer the benefit of any economies he can make...
...Luftwaffe was also overtaxed early in the campaign. At first as many as 500 transport planes flew in every day with supplies for the besieged forces at Stalingrad. Later the daily flights averaged 150, losses were constant and the Russians captured several airdromes at both ends of the German supply line, forcing the Germans to fly farther...
Relentless foe of the monolithic state, ever suspicious of a concentration of power, Jefferson was on a constant crusade for the people and against ignorance. Said he: "In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover. . . . Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves therefore are its only safe depositories. And to render even them safe, their minds must be improved to a certain degree. . . . Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they...
...began on a bleak shelf of rock in mid-Atlantic near Tristan da Cunha. Transplanted to Rhode Island by a passing Portuguese, he became a man of proverbial strength around the Providence wharves; he could drive a spike through an oak plank with his fist. As there was constant need for this type of skilled labor, he soon acquired enough tuition to enter Brown University. He is chiefly remembered there for translating the epigrams of Martial into colloquial Amharic and designing Brooks Bros.' present trademark, a sheep suspended in a diaper...
...absence of Stalin and Chiang Kai Shek from the ten-day Casablanca conference should not be construed in any way as meaning that they were excluded from the proceedings," Wild explained, since it has been stated definitely that they were kept in constant touch as negotiations proceeded...