Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another member of the neighborhood group, Robert G. Henderson '10, protested that "after we saw the plans at the tea we assumed that they had cleared it with the authorities and that we had no say in the matter. We appealed only after we had found out that it was 22 feet over the legal limit...
...ante worried Hays more than the morals of the matter ("I do not know what the quid pro quo was") or the economics ("He is doing what the President says -'Buy Now' "). To keep it from soaring higher at U.S. expense, Hays introduced an amendment striking out $400,000 in military aid and $200,000 in technical assistance funds to Trujillo...
...Matter of Timing. Launching of Sputnik III was something whose timing Moscow could control -and probably did -to impress the visiting Nasser with Russian might. And obviously timed to follow Sputnik was Khrushchev's new offer of a "radical solution" of the disarmament problem, to offset the developing impression that Russia was not eager for a summit meeting it could not dominate...
Without a Head. To listen to Pflimlin's new-found admirers -including the Communist Deputies who supported the emergency-powers bill -the issue before France was a matter of black and white; there existed, as Pflimlin said, "a plot against the republic," and anyone who believed in democracy must be ready "to take all necessary measures to maintain republican liberties." Unhappily, like most other attempts to reduce French political issues to black and white, this proposition was founded on a fallacy. In this case, the fallacy was the assumption that the existing French political system constitutes a working democracy...
...case has been linked here to a growing tendency to blame employment for illnesses where no causal relationship exists. This existing tendency has made the present case "a matter of great importance" in determining employment policies, Dr. Dana L. Farnsworth, Director of University Health Services, said recently...