Word: equality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...happened to be driving through Apalachin (from points as far distant as Los Angeles, Kansas City, Dallas and Tucson), just happened to notice lights on in the Barbara house, just happened to stop in for get-well-quick wishes to ailing Joe Barbara, who is a cardiac case. By equal coincidence, Barbara just happened to have on hand a few steaks (200 lbs.) to feed the boys...
...Himalayan snows and torrential monsoon rains, the canals make fertile some 21 million acres in Pakistan and 5,000,000 in India, and could be expanded to cover 22 million acres more. The system irrigates three times the area served by the bountiful Nile, supports a population equal to Italy's 50 million...
...Fourth Branch of Government is a critique, not a cure. The author argues that the old rule of objectivity has long since become a dead letter and would not be viable even if it could be revived. Nor is the shibboleth of "equal time, equal space" for conflicting views an adequate yardstick. What Cater asks is greater awareness within the press corps of the enormous power it holds and of the manifold ways in which that power and its holders can be used. The mechanical pitfalls in the way of commuting the "truth" from Washington to the reader who moves...
...European security. The most interesting feature of the Western plan is the section of German re-unification. West Germany is much larger than its Eastern counterpart, yet Soviet proposals for re-unification have always been based on the idea of "federation," with the "two Germanies" being treated as two equal states effecting a merger. The West, for its part, has insisted on immediate nationwide free elections and has rejected the federation concept. Its new plan, however, steps back from the traditional approach in several respects: elections are no longer immediate, but take place within thirty months; the East Germans will...
...week's end the rates went up. Major New York banks hiked their prime interest from 4% to 41%, equal to the prerecession level. The boost reflected heavier demands for bank loans by both business and consumers, also brought loan rates into line with yields on bonds. Most bankers now expect that the Federal Reserve will raise the discount rate from its current 3%. As interest rates climb, they will drive down farther a market already at a historic...