Word: firming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...UNDERGRADUATE DEFERMENTS. On the politically sensitive question of continuing deferments for full-time students, Johnson took no firm stand and neither did the Senate. The House bill requires that these deferments be maintained up to age 24 unless the President determines that military-manpower needs demand the induction of collegians. The House provision will likely be retained in some form...
...Sinai campaign. It could hold its own against almost any array of Arab armies, provided that the Arabs did not unite into a single force. What alarms Israel this time is the way in which the Arabs, though continuing to fight and squabble among themselves, have nonetheless joined firm ranks against Israel. Despite its superior military prowess, Israel might be hard pressed indeed to protect itself against any coordinated and sustained Arab attack...
Categorized Corporations. Indeed, acrimonious battles for company control have grown so common that Richard S. Nye, partner in the Manhattan proxy-soliciting firm of Georgeson & Co., says that "almost all corporations can be categorized as 'attackers,' 'attacked' or 'angels.' " To Indiana's Dodge Mfg. Corp., maker of power-transmission equipment, Cleveland's Reliance Electric & Engineering Co. has just become an angel. Confronted by an unwanted tender offer from Emerson Electric Co., Dodge two weeks ago worked out a stock-swap merger with Reliance...
...believe in nothing, nothing that is being taught by religion, and at the same time I not only hate, but despise unbelief. I don't see how one can live and still less how one can die without faith. I am gradually constructing my own beliefs, yet however firm I may be about them, they are not very firm and not very consoling. When my reason questions, their answer is satisfactory; but when my heart suffers and needs an answer, it receives from them neither support nor comfort...
I.M.C. is a small outfit ($299 million net sales in 1966) compared to some of its competitors in Madrid, but it offered the most experienced fertilizer-producing and marketing network that was available. The firm has mined phosphates in Florida since the early 1900s, is a partner in a phosphate mine in Senegal, West Africa, has a large share of a $70 million Indian phosphate-fertilizer plant scheduled to begin production this summer. And, I.M.C. pointedly is building the world's largest phosphoric-acid plant in Antwerp. Combined with the company's other processing plants around the world...