Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...since record 1955. What gives automen heart is the low level of consumer debt and the prospect of a big increase next year. One of the axioms of the new economics-and the exact opposite of the copybook maxims-is that rising consumer debt is a sign of prosperity, expanding in times of optimism, contracting in times of doubt. With recession in 1958, consumers paid off $1 billion in auto debts, the highest repayment since World War II. Now, with recovery, they should be in the mood to borrow for cars again. While predictions...
...Roethke leaves the reader unresolved, perhaps because he is himself unresolved. His perceptions, however exact, add up to no coherent whole. His despair, however moving, is still too personal to be shared. As he writes in one of his latest poems...
Moving West. The exact shape of Poland today (as so often in the past) is not the result of nature or of justice, but of the machinations of outsiders. In the closing months of World War II, the Russians coolly announced that they intended to keep permanently the 68,667 sq. mi. of eastern Poland, beyond the so-called Curzon line, which they had grabbed in the piping days of the Nazi-Soviet Pact. As compensation, Stalin proposed to give the Poles large chunks of the provinces of East Prussia, Pomerania and Silesia-all in all, some...
...unusual situation occurred in Winthrop, where the balloting resulted in an exact tie between Charles M. Needle and Levon G. Kasarjian, Jr. A re-vote to resolve the tie is scheduled for today...
Student Council elections will be held tomorrow by all Houses except Adams, Leverett, and Winthrop, Hastings Wyman Jr. '61, chairman of the Student Council election committee, announced yesterday. Adams and Leverett will delay elections until after the Christmas recess. The exact date will be decided later by the House Committees...