Word: freer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...being used as "protectionist devices" to keep down foreign competition. To Anderson's great satisfaction, Jacobsson virtually signed the death warrant for dollar discrimination by promising that the fund would act on a tougher policy "in the very near future," thus launching a major new step for a freer world trade...
...Something." Still he had to lick the biggest problem: winning approval from G.M.'s top management. In July of 1956, Ed Cole got a much freer rein to press the project: Chevy Boss Tom Keating moved up to head all G.M. passenger-car divisions, and Ed Cole replaced him as the Chevrolet general manager, became a G.M. vice president...
...from being more primitive than its successors, Olmec art is on the whole subtler, gentler, freer and more naturalistic than they are. This naturally bothers archaeologists; it seems to go against reason. So does the presence of two distinct physical types side by side throughout Olmec art: one lean and aquiline, the other Negroid. Meyer's two ambassadors from the lost Olmec world display both types. They are not gods, apparently, but men-alert and still, and perhaps forever strange...
Germany's Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard. sympathetic to the cause of freer trade everywhere, promised Denmark not to discriminate against it for joining the Outer Seven. Germany hopes in time to put pressure on France to widen the Common Market club. But as Erhard points out, the Outer Seven is "dangerous medicine," even though "chances are good that it will work." And, as one of Erhard's aides adds: "Separate groups tend to form habits, generate loyalties, encourage parochial thinking. On the other hand, they can produce creative friction...
...also help to explain the seemingly endless appeal of the '20s. The Lost Generation had one abiding faith-that something would happen in the next 20 minutes that would utterly change one's life. From this great expectation sprang the wild parties, the free verse and the freer love. In the spirit of the '20s. changing partners meant changing patterns...