Word: item
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shuffle of ballots, one item of striking significance was widely overlooked-in a vote dominated by pocketbook considerations, the Republicans had come close to running the Democrats a dead heat! The booming prosperity since 1954 has strengthened further the Republican economic appeal . . . The chief Republican liability [i.e., the stigma of depressions] has been ebbing-just how fast is the question that probably will decide the 1956 election...
...world's chancelleries the No. 1 item of wonderment was the Soviet Union's unflaggingly active and aggressive foreign policy in the face of convulsive disorder within the Communist Parties. While the West grappled with problems created by Soviet diplomacy, the process of destroying the legend of Joseph Stalin was causing obvious and increasing confusion in Russia and the satellite states. If the Soviet Union had not yet found it necessary to make policy concessions on this account, it was because the West had not yet discovered how to exploit a state of disorder, which may even reflect...
...Business Executives Research Committee, a study group sponsored by the University of Minnesota's School of Business Administration, decided that it was time to move the tariff controversy into the realm of local reality. Last week, after interviewing officials of about 400 Minnesota companies, the committee released an item-by-item survey of the probable effects on Minnesota's industry of a U.S. tariff reduction...
...Only one item caused the M.P.s to raise their voices: the 20% tax that Harris wants to impose on the Canadian advertising revenues of foreign, i.e., U.S., publications. Opposition members echoed the widespread complaints of Canadian newspapers that the tax would be an indirect threat to press freedom. One telling point was scored by Carl Nickle, a Calgary Tory, who is publisher of the Daily Oil Bulletin and other trade journals of Canada's prosperous oil industry. Nickle explained that he stood to benefit personally from restrictions on foreign periodicals ("Potentially, there would be lessened competition for my publications...
Located in the heart of the College, the Museum provides the space and facilities for most of its Fine Arts courses, sections as well as lectures, but this is the basic and not the sum of its undergraduate activities. For one item, Fogg lends reproductions to students. It is always expanding this service, now that it charges minimal rental fees, which are plowed back into the program. The number of reproductions has tripled in the past four or five years...