Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bankers feared what British exhibitors knew: that unless the rulers of Hollywood or Britain-or both-give in, many British movie houses would soon be shut down for lack of films. If that happens, British moviemen fear the worst: nationalization...
...swollen agencies in Washington live in fear of their daily bread and butter," said Professor Schumpeter, in a stab at Bureaucracy. He labelled the money used to pay bureaucrats "negligible" compared with the damage they caused...
...drastically, for reasons of "economy." If this ill-advised scissoring succeeds in turning the recovery program into a parsimonious dole for Europe's needy, then Mr. George Weller, whose letter appears elsewhere on this page, may be right. Such a "European Relief Plan" would actively encourage Communists, whose greatest fear is a courageous program of reconstruction...
...doctors have many objections to the new act. Basically, they fear complete state control of medicine. And the doctors do not trust Bevan. In medical terms, he is a "corrected sinistral": left-handed as a child, he developed a stammer when elders forced him to be righthanded. He cured the stammer, relapses only when he is excited; but the doctors think that his politics move steadily leftward...
...many business bigwigs, S.R.I, concluded that good executives work to be happy; material rewards and prestige are secondary. Though the average good executive gets along with almost everybody, he regards subordinates as "doers of work," feels a personal attachment only toward his superiors. He is often driven by a fear of frustration. He likes and even admires his father, but so far as his mother is concerned he has "left home" for good...