Word: fulcrums
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...budgetmakers have worked hard for three years to cut unnecessary expenses, introduce modern management methods and get more return for every dollar spent (see below). But Ike was the first to point out that the all-important final weights in the balance came on the revenue side of the fulcrum; the tax yield from the prosperous second half of calendar 1956 will be unexpectedly good, and the Administration believes that 1957 will bring an even higher level of income...
...members to any political standard they choose. The reasons for this lie in the non-Marxian sociology of the American workingman. Its implications point a warning to the leaders of the new labor federation. While Meany and Reuther may visualize the AFL-CIO as a vast new political fulcrum which can make politicians tremble and cause labor policies to be transformed into political action, the task ahead may be much more difficult than either of them realizes. And, in making the attempt to influence political currents, the AFL-CIO chiefs may be risking more than they contemplate...
...Fulcrum of Influence. On many another occasion Roosevelt was his own foreign secretary, ignoring Hull. Yet Hull clung tenaciously-not to a job-but to a fulcrum of influence from which he could (and did) greatly modify the New Deal's economic nationalism...
...Daladier, the appeaser of Munich; 82-year-old Edouard Herriot, who fought German rearmament tooth and claw. And they include two diehard conservatives, Léon Martinaud-Déplat and René Mayer, who engineered Mendès' downfall. The Radical Socialists come close to being the fulcrum of French politics...
...both "right" and "left," stand a whole group of "united" churches-the United Church of Canada, the Church of Christ in Japan, the Evangelical Church of the Philippines, the United Church of North India, the Church of South India, and others. They are at the center of gravity, the fulcrum, of ecumenical Christianity...