Word: distress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shakedown. In San Francisco, the Call-Bulletin reported the minor distress of a luxury liner, said it "put back into port with 791 passengers for repairs...
...perhaps unfair to judge the rushing system entirely in the harsh light of the superficiality, injustice and distress which are its characteristics. Not only does it train the Rush Committees for later life, but a good rushee will emerge broad gauge. Approximately 30 percent of each class is given the advantage of this special training. Although 30 percent is a democratic enough figure, the College Dean's office reports that four fifths of this group attended private schools...
...Houses are to be jails, future seniors should not be regulated by Administrative fiat. Masters and their Senior Tutors are well enough acquainted with the situation in their respective institutions to decide who ought to live out and in what numbers. Exceptions in cases of marriage, illness and financial distress are already provided for--the invitation should also be extended to those who simply cannot stand House life...
...this, nobody is aiming at the real bargain, such as the genuine month-end clearance, the special purchase, distress merchandise, the end-of-the-season markdown of broken lots. But what the FTC, the Better Business Bureaus and merchandising groups (such as the National Retail Merchants Association) want to end are the phony price-cuts. The merchants, many of whom have prodded the FTC to get tougher, feel that if they do not voluntarily police their industry, Congress will step in and do it for them-just as the Monroney law outlawed phony price-packing by auto dealers...
...labor wage boosts and to Senate revelations of union corruption, and this may well be a sleeper issue working in the Republicans' favor. Yet in Kansas, Ohio and Colorado, the labor issue has been somewhat offset because right-to-work proposals appear on the ballot-to the distress of Republican candidates and the delight of Democrats, because right-to-work prompts organized labor to spend vast amounts of money in registration drives that usually work to Democratic advantage...