Word: implementation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...determined and confident tones, the powerful United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers (C.I.O.) read out the declaration of war. Said the union: the auto industry must raise wages 30% to make up for the loss in take-home pay caused by the return of peace, i.e., the loss of eight hours of overtime when the week was cut from 48 to 40. The industry, said the union, must raise wages without raising auto prices,* which have not yet been fixed...
...Mexico was to have the first free election of its history in July, 1946, it would be up to President Manuel Avila Camacho to enforce it. In his annual message to Congress he had made an equivocal promise to implement the people's will. But the President would have to introduce new electoral procedure, clearly tell the P.R.M. to keep its hands off the ballot boxes, and perhaps even insure a fair count by strict, nonpartisan supervision before his promise became fact...
Fast Finish. As power politics flared in Europe and Asia, the bank's business boomed. The character and purpose of its loans underwent a change. Instead of an implement to foster U.S. world trade, the bank became an instrument of foreign policy. Its loans were made more for political reasons than economic...
...bitterness remained was spent by Montana's Burton K. Wheeler in a quarrelsome, three-hour speech about the peace. He grudgingly announced his intention to vote for the Charter, but he argued against most of its major premises. The "real fight," he promised, would come when legislation to implement U.S. participation reaches the Senate-perhaps not for more than a year. Then there would be a lot to say about Article 43 (which binds the U.S. and other participants to make armed forces available to fight aggression...
...fact candor. He impressed them as a disciplined, cultured administrator sympathetic to Indian aspirations, less concerned with his office than with Indian good will. To Gandhi (then in jail) he wrote: "I am in entire accord with that aim [Indian self-government] and only seek the best means to implement it without delivering India to confusion and turmoil...