Word: money
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arabs to have this noninvolved outpost." Many Lebanese agree, on the practical ground that a draft would cost at least $30 million. Editorialized the Beirut Star: "Lebanon realizes that Israel's military might is much stronger than her own. It would take a great deal of money to improve on the situation. Since 1943, we have followed a policy of letting the big powers protect us. Why not in the future as well...
Well of Feeling. On political issues he is the essence of what Britons call bloody-mindedness-the trait of holding to one's own convictions, no matter how wrongheaded they may seem to others. He is the delight of right-wing Tories in money matters, demanding the abolition of government fiscal controls and proposing to cut income taxes in half and reduce government spending drastically. On foreign policy issues, he is a devout "Little Englander," who would end all of Britain's commitments beyond Europe, dissolve the Commonwealth and cut loose Rhodesia to go the route of former...
...father was one of the first of the professional fund raisers, and the family was always on the move. By the time he was four, he had moved through 40 states. By high school graduation he had attended 15 schools. Throughout it all, he was earning his own spending money. At 10, he bought copies of the Bayonne Times on the newsstands for a penny, hawked them in bars and restaurants for two cents. He shined shoes, dug ditches, sold peanuts, labored on a construction gang. At 18, he toured New England with his own bingo game. After four years...
Under Curtis' exuberant, free-spending management, the Post grew up with the century. It was the expansive age of oil and railroad fortunes and of Horatio Alger; young, middle-class men everywhere were ambitious, eager to make money. The Post captured their readership with such articles as "How I Made My First Thousand Dollars" and with the masculine fiction of Kipling, Bret Harte and Jack London...
...issue were only money, the strike could probably be settled quickly. The Guild is demanding a minimum salary of $264 a week for experienced newsmen; AP offered $14 less, or $250. A more basic difference is the Guild's insistence that eight out of ten new AP employees must join the union. AP General Manager Wes Gallagher has called the demand "non-negotiable." If the AP "is to maintain its standards of objectivity," he said, "it cannot force its news employees into any organization, including a union...