Word: discussing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Asked congressional leaders of both parties to the White House to discuss refinancing the national debt, afterwards prepared recommendations for new legislation to 1) increase the regular debt limit from $283 billion to $288 billion, and the temporary limit from $288 billion to $295 billion; 2) raise interest rates on savings bonds and long-term Treasury obligations to make them more attractive in the bond market (see BUSINESS...
...offered some apparent concessions of his own. The West, he conceded, does have the victor's right to maintain occupation forces in Berlin, and the Soviet price for a Berlin settlement no longer requires Western recognition of Communist East Germany. Then came the old stall: Russia would not discuss the question of access until the Western powers agreed that Berlin become a "free city," i.e., until they renounced their occupation rights. And there matters stopped-approximately where they had been when Nikita Khrushchev first conjured up the Berlin crisis last November...
...turn away from Judaism completely; or he may come back to it with new intellectual tools, seeking to mold a familiar image. "Some people think that Judaism becomes more respectable when it wears the cloak of popular philosophies," Rabbi Gold said. "It is quite likely that students prefer to discuss Jewish questions on grounds more familiar to them: how does religion relate to things taught them at the University? How does it fit in with different philosophies?" Religion is discussed from the reference frame of their new value system. This is inimical to the study of religion. The values used...
...going back to school. In Houston, independents and chains send their checkers to a four-week course at the University of Houston called "Grocery Checking with Charm," the nation's first such course. It teaches them personality and poise, how to dress and make up properly, how to discuss problems with customers, how to stand on a hard floor all day without becoming grouchy (keep a straight back and a stiff upper...
...local representative of a group interested in putting a $50 million apartment house project over the MTA yards told the City Council Monday that it would be premature to discuss the plans at this time...