Word: freer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...chop away red tape. The Common Market (West Germany, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg) in its first year was such a resounding success that Britain, Portugal, Switzerland, Austria, Norway, Sweden and Denmark formed their own Outer Seven trading area to enjoy the benefits of mass markets and freer trade. Said a Common Market official in Brussels: "At the start, the politicians were for European unity, and the businessmen were very skeptical. But now it is the businessmen who are enthusiastic about the Common Market, while the politicians are beginning to drag their feet. The businessmen will force their...
...Board Chairman Roger Blough, decided to take a stand on two propositions in this year's contract negotiations with the United Steelworkers: 1) increases in wages and fringe benefits must be noninflationary; and 2) collective bargaining must become a "two-way street," with the union yielding management a freer hand in control of plant operations...
Beneath this wide sweep of policy was a bedrock Administration decision to make the sound dollar the basis for the U.S. economic system, and to make a sound U.S. economic system the keystone of a free-world economic policy based on growing prosperity through freer trade. The drive was the President's own. But the man behind the drive was a tall (6 ft. 2 in.), mild-mannered Texan with a lingering touch of the prairies in his soft twang: Robert Bernerd Anderson, 49, Secretary of the Treasury and the strong man of Dwight Eisenhower's Cabinet...
...Greatest Challenge. In pushing toward broader aid and freer trade, Anderson is serving, as he sees it, not only the interests of the U.S. but the interests of all the free world. In his global view, his policies at home and his policies abroad are interdependent, just as the U.S. and the rest of the free world are interdependent. By fighting for sound money at home, he can encourage freer world trade by keeping the world's reserve currency, the U.S. dollar, dependably stable. By persuading Western Europe to assume a fair share of the foreign-aid burden...
...many areas: the scientific method is urged upon us, as is logic and rationality; democracy is often preached, and totalitarianism almost universally inveighed against; and in the humanities, standards of taste are handed down in a fashion that sometimes approaches coercion. Outside the classroom, some teachers feel even freer in pontificating on these and related questions, but there is almost no moral guidance or consideration of conduct, character, and duty...