Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sometimes plays in frustrating this control. However, the really basic problem that lies at the root of the Eisenhower regime's inability to manage 2,300,000 federal workers efficiently is veterans' preference, and the way an accepted principle in U.S. life is being misused to an extent that our entire career service is being threatened...
...which he had tried to alleviate with aspirin tablets, and had gradually learned, after many tests, that what he had might be very serious. In June the doctors told him that his case was "virtually hopeless." He told Mrs. Taft that he might have a malignancy but belittled the extent of it, and thereupon began a careful masquerade, playing the part of a man who had nothing wrong with him that the doctors couldn...
...ratified by law." That was not the "Bricker Amendment" of 1787. It was the part of wisdom to vote it down, because Morris' motion was applicable to all treaties. My amendment requires congressional implementation only of those treaties that become effective as "internal law," and to that extent alone. The very first section of the Constitution reads...
...half of the total has been lent on automobiles alone. About two out of three new autos are bought on credit; more than 65% of all used-car purchases are made on an installment plan. While more than half the nation's families are in debt to some extent, most of them manage to keep their installment debts below 10% of their annual earnings. But one in every ten U.S. families actually owes 20% or more of its annual income before taxes...
...incident or another kept him boiling. "The Duce has been made furiously angry ... by the bad behavior of some farmers from Bari who were being entertained in the Party House in Munich -they even relieved themselves on the stairs. A disgusting incident, likely to lower us to an unbelievable extent in the opinion of the Germans; The Chief . . . let fly at the 'sons of slaves...