Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unfair to say," Rogers told newsmen at a luncheon in his honor, "that competition might well be substituted for complacency" in a British economy that is largely burdened by "timeconsuming inefficiency. If larger and more efficient firms in the United Kingdom were to stop holding umbrellas over the less efficient and were to expose them to real competition, it would strengthen your country's position in world trade and bring better standards of living at home...
...question of hungry men making good Commies," he added, "but rather of the development of a feeling among Asians that their larger goals can be achieved along Western lines...
...that the same qualifications for voting be required of whites as of Negroes and that, as the ballot box was closed, the school houses should be opened. These sound suggestions were not followed. By 1910 all the Southern states had adopted constitutional provisions or enacted legislation that disfranchised much larger numbers of Negroes than of whites. At the same time more educational facilities were provided for whites than for Negroes...
Engel predicted that the department's standards will rise rather than fall because the move will encourage a larger number of better students to take English...
...utilize a dam site fully, and wasting the heritage of future generations in this respect is inexcusable. These federal projects pay for themselves through power revenues, and the experience of TVA and the Bonneville Power Administration shows that they stimulate the area's economy so it can pay a larger share of the nation's taxes...