Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stubborn Rich. What Labor proposed to do about unequal cultural enrichment, Towards Equality did not say. It left little doubt, however, about how it proposed to tackle "unjust" inequalities in wealth and income. In loving detail the pamphlet discussed the relative merits of a tax on expenditure rather than on income-Gaitskell has long been distressed by "the refusal of well-to-do taxpayers to react to high taxation [of income] by cutting down their standard of living"-and of collecting inheritance taxes in property rather than in cash, a device which would have the advantage of depriving the heirs...
Today the McDonalds live in a seven-room, three-bath fieldstone house in Mt. Lebanon, eight miles south of the Golden Triangle. They live unpretentiously, do little formal entertaining. But informal callers, mostly union men, are constant. At his office, McDonald exercises a prodigious memory, is a stickler for detail. His office furniture includes a dial-studded electric massage chair into which he sinks to be vibrated when he gets fatigued. His staff boasts that he "can work 35 men to exhaustion, but he irritates union wives by insisting that aides stay at home Sundays to be on call...
...yield to a woman's tears. "Give her an opportunity to regain self-control. Let her know you're available to discuss anything she wants to bring up. Explain the situation in detail. Above all, don't dismiss a tearful girl with an offhand: 'Go wash your face; you'll feel better.' Reconcile yourself to the fact that in most cases the cause of a woman's tears are beyond your control...
Teller did not tell in detail how this could be done, but he gave a long chain of complex equations showing how energy is released in reacting gases (deuterium or tritium), and how energy escapes from the system. He gave a few general hints about how the lines of magnetic force affect and confine the moving ions. He did not sound lightly confident; repeatedly, he pointed to serious difficulties...
...likely international bestseller, just published by Catholic Action in Rome, is a careful analysis of Communist tactics and techniques in its war against Roman Catholicism. Red Book, a 378-page volume by Albert Gaiters, a Swiss, ticks off the Red record of persecution country by country in documented detail. But most interesting to the general reader is the overall survey of the subject, presented in the first chapter...