Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went back to Ceylon and began competing for higher stakes. Once in politics. he discarded his Western dress. Though brought up an Anglican, he turned Buddhist. Today, at 57, Bandaranaike lives a fairly Spartan life with his wife and three children. Stooped, gaunt and bespectacled, he has an uncanny understanding of his fellow Ceylonese. And his talent for expediency has never left him. Those who do not admire him are fond of reciting a little jingle...
...Better? What does analysis do for patients? Says Hans Jurgen Eysenck, a bright, up-and-coming British psychologist: "I have yet to meet a Freudian who can prove that there is a higher [improvement rate] among neurotics who are psychoanalyzed . . . What evidence they do offer is anecdotal ... In mental cases of all types about three-quarters will recover in about the same period whether they have treatment...
Against the threat of higher prices, many a businessman borrowed money to build up inventories, thus put more pressure under both credit and prices. In March wholesale metal prices rose nearly 1% over February, stood 11% higher than a year ago. With more price increases in the offing, FRB's Bill Martin hopes to discourage marginal borrowers who can put off their spending plans, thereby balk more inflation...
...dignity-crushing subservience that once bound mill hand to boss has almost disappeared from the U.S. company town. Industry is generally aware that output will be consistently higher in bright, well-run communities where employees are proud to live and work. Civic leaders, for their part, find that industry not only brings in new payrolls and tax revenue but good neighbors as well. Today's company town citizen owes responsibility to his community and his job. But the company holds no mortgage on his soul...
Along with Brown, attack man Stu Lindsay sparkplugged the Syracuse team. Lindsay, who played second-string All-American last year, was higher scorer for the game with a total of six goals and one assist. The Orange team scored four times in the first period, five times in the second, four times in the third, and seven times in the fourth...