Word: graving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Equalizing corporate taxes and working conditions. (France, whose cradle-to-grave social security system is the most costly in Europe, is demanding that other nations "harmonize" their welfare systems, overtime rates, etc., with hers...
Cross-Questioning. As the election campaign proceeded, grave dangers assailed Gomulka's experiment in limited democracy. Communist candidates were greeted with such cries as "What did you do to prevent the bad years?" and "I'm for Gomulka, but right after he came in prices went up." Listening coldly to candidates' ingratiating speeches, voters debated which was the better way to manifest their disgust with Communism: to boycott the elections, or to cross off all the Communist names at the top of the ballots. Their defiance was subtly encouraged by the Stalinist Communist leaders whom Gomulka supplanted...
...Catini's output is used from the cradle to the grave-from nipples on baby bottles to formaldehyde for undertakers. All this has paid the company well: between 1950 and 1955 sales soared 85% to $275,680,000; profits jumped 130% to $16.6 million, though 1955 earnings of 6% on sales were not as favorable as Allied Chemical's profit of 8%, Du Font's 22%. But Faina's goal is as American as apple pie, though it may seem as unlikely in cartel-minded, low-wage Italy as pie in the sky. Says President Faina...
...supporters angrily stormed out of the Statehouse growling "robbery" and "dictatorship," smiling Denny Roberts took his oath, in his own private office, surrounded by cops, state troopers, newsmen and henchmen. There was no inaugural address-just a Roberts' statement justifying the necessity of court action to resolve a "grave constitutional issue...
Gaitskell guessed that although Russia will try to retain the countries of Eastern Europe as political satellites, nationalism in the area will increase and that an "unstable and fluid situation" will continue. If the satellites are going to produce further grave political trouble, Gaitskell asked whether the Soviets might not be willing to relinquish military control over Eastern Europe in return for security guarantees...