Word: leste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case, Butters added, should capital-gains taxes be raised without a compensating cut in high-bracket income taxes, lest investment incentive vanish. On the other hand, if the capital-gains tax were eliminated, New York Stock Exchange Research Director Jonathan Brown estimated that $200 billion in "locked in" capital, i.e., unrealized capital gains, would be liberated for new investment...
...Jain* temples of Ahmedabad in western India stand 600-odd priests. Theirs is a hard and holy life; they say ritual prayers, guard temple treasures, abstain from smoking and drinking, sup before sundown (for lamps lure moths to destruction), and wear white cloth pads over their noses and mouths (lest their breathing destroy gnats or germs). Their wages never exceed $5 a month...
...ground floor and prepared to rebuild the entire six floors. Only the outside will remain the same. France's "Law on Historic Monuments" jealously prohibits tampering with the building's traditional façade; city officials refused even to let American Express sandblast its grimy exterior lest this make the nearby grimy Opéra look even dirtier...
Mutiny is an ugly word, and in the Chamber, Deputies were sobered. Faure made a last, stern appeal: stop bickering, and make up your mind on what France should do in North Africa. Lest France be left alone and friendless in the world, he pleaded, "we must have a clear policy-not powerless sulking...
...earth-rattling change. He is shocked to learn, for example, that some of the people down in the vaults were not sick at all-they are "political suspendees." And The Company loses Tom to the underground for good when he realizes that The Company actually cultivates occasional small wars, lest people become so secure that they need no insurance...