Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city's failure to hold on to the auto industry or attract replacements, many Detroit businessmen blame United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther and his close ally, Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams. Reuther, the arguments run, discourages industry by pushing labor costs higher and higher, and Democrat Williams discourages it by committing himself to Big Labor and the ever higher taxes of the welfare state. Says outspoken Harvey Campbell, vice president of the powerful Detroit Board of Commerce: "Businessmen won't talk about it in public. They are afraid of reprisal. They stand behind me and cheer...
...overwhelming" opposition to the general wage boosts urged by the A.F.L.C.I.O. leaders stems from the public conviction that higher wages would only bring on higher prices. Women are more sensitive to inflation than men are, and white-collar workers more than factory workers. But even factory workers feel that "wages are high enough, if only prices can be kept from going up." "So strong is this yearning," Lubell reports, that some people favor a federal wage-price freeze...
...ever stay for the third card in stud with less than jack-10. The secret of stud is to stay on higher cards than your opponents...
...diesel sub had to have fresh outside air blown through on an average of every twelve hours, the atomic sub uses its original quota of air as long as it stays down. And that air is fouled by crew members' smoking, which in time can produce a higher monoxide level than did the old diesels. Both carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide must be removed, by elaborate nitration processes, as fast as possible. When the two gases are present together, even in amounts that would be safe if considered separately, the monoxide reinforces the poisonous powers of the dioxide...
Parents who oppose higher entrance requirements argue that higher standards would "hurt the student who is just average." Principals in favor of the move think it would eventually force high schools to raise their own standards...