Word: controls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recognition of East Germany. Strongly held U.S. view: no diplomatic recognition; the British do not object to giving East Germany control of the access corridors to Berlin so long as the Russians join in guaranteeing the right of access...
Both Camps. For Khrushchev now to cut off his promised aid for Nasser's Aswan High Dam would be to show all Asia and Africa that Soviet aid is in fact tied with strings. Though the Communists were now in control of Baghdad's streets, did they dare bid for full control of Iraq? If they did, could they avoid a new revolutionary situation, in which powerful Arabic emotions would be turned against them? Dare they risk the West's mistake of opposing Nasser in such a way as to strengthen...
...bulldog-faced assailant who tears at Christ's robe might also be gesturing in supplication. The German scholar Wilhelm Franger contends that Bosch was really a free-spirited nature worshiper; if so, the message of The Crowning might be that man acts through compulsions that are beyond his control. Or perhaps Bosch is saying: Christ is not mocked. But whatever the message, this painting lacks Bosch's usual tormented agony, and may have been his moment of peace...
...series of transactions. The opposite is a market price that fluctuates on the basis of supply and demand." Later Means amplified his definition by blaming administered prices on bigness in business. Wrote he in 1939: "While many factors influence price insensitivity, the dominant factor is the administrative control over prices which results from the relatively small number of concerns dominating particular markets...
...spotted Universal Products Co. early in 1956 when it was a corporate shell with a treasury of $10 million. Chesler took control by putting up $1,000,000, plus $2,500,000 from millionaire cronies such as Baltimore Colts' Owner Carroll Rosenbloom. ("Who wouldn't pay $1,000,000 to get control of $10 million?" asks Chesler.) With Universal's cash, Chesler bought Baltimore's American Totalisator, which owns and leases 80% of the racetrack "Tote" systems that automatically figure and post bets, odds and winnings. By swapping stock, Universal later acquired General Register Corp. (ticket...