Word: lessening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first "boo" came from J. M. Mehl, administrator of the Department of Agriculture's Commodity Exchange Authority. The Board of Trade's margin requirements, raised only the week before, were still too low, said Mehl. He asked that they be doubled in order to "lessen the danger of a boom-&-bust situation...
...people embraced Communism we derived countermeasures. We re-educated some to the truth of Chinese civilization, thus winning back their allegiance to the motherland. We stressed moral education. We tried to re-establish family life more satisfactorily. We gave the poor technical training, to better themselves and thereby lessen their envy of the rich...
...Washington University, pioneers in psychosurgery, told of having performed prefrontal lobotomy - a brain operation which frees the patient from feelings of anxiety and fear - on patients who were suffering unbearable pain from chronic disease (TIME, Dec. 23). The operation had no effect on the disease, and did nothing to lessen the pain; but the patients, freed of anxiety, now found their suffering bearable, and some even laughed at it. The doctors' conclusion: "When pain no longer raises a mental picture of future disability, it can be borne with equanimity...
...wage raises, which had brought peace to heavy industry, would help keep up the purchasing power of many union members. To that extent, the boosts would lessen the effects of high prices and the dangers of a slump. But the benefiting unionists were only a small minority of consumers. The No. i problem for the U.S. was still to keep up the purchasing power of the majority. This could be done only by lowered prices. Was it not time that management showed a high degree of economic statesmanship-and lowered prices on a broad scale? Were not profits so high...
...compensation he may get comes to him not as a vested right but as a favor from an indulgent government. Only if the Government takes land for planned use or compels a property owner to demolish buildings or otherwise alter the use of his property in ways which lessen its current value is compensation granted as a matter of right-and then 'only in amounts determined by the Government...