Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lift for Murray. The pattern was promptly adopted by others. Two days later the United Electrical Workers' Jim Matles agreed to a similar contract for U.E.'s 40,000 G.M. workers. That fact seemed sure to have an effect on U.E.'s negotiations at Westinghouse and General Electric. Next day, the lyday Chrysler strike was over. Michigan's dapper Governor Kim Sigler dashed from Lansing to his Detroit office, where Chrysler and the U.A.W. had resumed peace talks. A few hours later, Chrysler and the union agreed on a flat 13^ increase. Ford, which had proposed...
...before, Ebbets Field had been three-quarters empty. That day, it had an unusually small Saturday crowd of 12,821. In effect, the Dodgers were being boycotted...
Pericles or Pinto. He might also find a good answer to an old, half-serious controversy: What will be the long-range effect of Southern California's bland climate upon humans who enjoy...
Once a policy is set, N.A.M. weakens it by insisting on "unit thinking and unit action" among members. The effect has been an "exertion of pressure" rather than an "exercise of leadership." Conventions are managed "in such a way that conflicting points of view are either suppressed or quickly compromised into meaningless platitudes...
Revolt by Half. All of Kafka's anxieties were crystallized in his relationship to his stolid and conventional middle-class father, who exerted "the bewildering effect that all tyrants have whose might is founded not on reason, but on their own person." The elder Kafka thrust all his massive sarcasm and scorn on his son in order to turn him into a successful businessman. Had he merely rebelled and broken from his father, Kafka might have gained endurance and maturity. His tragedy was that he could neither completely acquiesce nor completely rebel...