Word: implementation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Verbal Misunderstanding." France, Italy, West Germany and the Benelux countries had announced that they were ready to start talks to implement the Schuman Plan. The British had grudgingly agreed to send delegates to these talks. But when the French suggested that the participating nations issue a joint communiqué stating the purposes of the talks (i.e., to merge Western Europe's coal and steel industries under an international authority), the British refused; they argued that this would mean an advance commitment to the plan. In its best diplomatic manner, France's Foreign Ministry announced that a slight "verbal...
...Northwest was a place which provided prerogatives for the average man. Pendleton, Ore. had a country club whose dues were only $6 a month for a family, and its membership included a bakery driver, a farm-implement clerk and two gas-station grease monkeys. This was still unusual, but almost anyone in the Northwest could ski or fish for salmon practically at his front door, build a lawn and admire magnificent mountains as he did so, raise his children decently, and with luck own a boat or a shack in the woods. In moments of contemplation he could fervently pity...
...implement the autonomous nature of the plan, participation will be on a completely voluntary basis--for doctors and hospitals as well as patients. This distinguishes the newer plan from the compulsory Truman omnibus health bill introduced last year. The argument for the compulsory system is that a voluntary plan, if it is ever to gain enough participants, must have expensive sales promotion; the Blue Cross supposedly pays out one-third of its premiums in advertising. But under any government-controlled plan, the cost of administration would almost surely be greater than that of an advertising program. In any case...