Word: ments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pressures or no, the 1956 steel strike symbolized something far more sig nificant for the long-range health of the U.S. economy. For the first time in a major labor dispute, the Federal Govern ment had played a role consistent with the "partnership" theory of labor-management relations. The Administra tion, without public threats or posturing, made it clear to both sides that it would take action in the interests of the econ omy if the shutdown continued much longer. Then, having made its point, it re lied both on economic and moral pressure to bring about a voluntary settlement...
...official neutralism, but Burma is now becoming neutral against the Com munists. Already Premier Ba Swe's gov ernment has reversed Burma's decision of three years ago to refuse all economic and technical aid from the U.S. The gov ernment has hired a Chicago manage ment firm to help reorganize its bureauc racy. The U.S. has recently agreed to send technicians to Burma to advise on indus trial development in return for $1,000,000 worth of Burmese rice to ease Pakistan's current food shortage. Last week the two governments were discussing a $25 million...
...analysts are trying to gather figures to prove the worth of their methods, but the usual criterion of success is that analyst and analysand shall agree on the outcome. Naturally, the analyst is biased, and the patient may be the victim of the Freudian mechanism of wish fulfill ment. It is useless to go by the opinions of unbelievers, because most of the unanalyzed tend to feel superior to those who have succumbed sufficiently to life's stresses to pay heavily to go to a "talking doctor," "head-shrinker," or "witch doctor," and have their "heads candled...
...would be quite unrealistic to bring about the unification of Germany through a mechanical merger . . . at the expense of the social achievements of the working people of the German democratic republic."-We are not going to expose the East German Communists to the embarrass ment of free elections. We know they would lose...
...Congressman Justin James Morrill of Vermont rose in the House of Representatives to propose a bill that was destined to add a whole new dimension to U.S. education. The Gover ment, said he, should grant to each state enough land to start at least one college "where the leading object shall be ... to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts." For those who questioned the practicability of such a school, Morrill had a ready answer. Out in Michigan, the first state school to teach agriculture was "in the full tide of successful experiment...