Word: mousetrap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inflation. "With strong markets, with steady costs, with lower taxes, American business does not need higher price levels to assure continued growth and profits." Later in the week, he suggested that businessmen might even cut prices in some fields, "to give us," as he put it, "the best mousetrap at the lowest price." Chief Economic Adviser Walter Heller repeated the President's warning against price rises, urged labor leaders to avoid asking for excessive wage demands if they "do not want the blame for restarting a wage-price spiral." He also repeated his prediction that G.N.P. will...
...Better Mousetrap. He declined to be drawn into the Bobby Baker mess: "I think every man is entitled to a fair trial, and I would like to see what conclusion is reached and what the evidence shows-with which I am not familiar-before I would make a judgment." And how would he label...
...water and oil, and so forth. Nevertheless, we have one thing they don't have, and that is our system of private enterprise-free enterprise-where the employer, hoping to make a little profit, the laborer, hoping to justify his wages, can get together and make a better mousetrap...
...tried to mousetrap De Gaulle by urging Nationalist China not to break relations with France immedi ately, in the hope of embarrassing De Gaulle by tagging him with a "two-China" label acceptable to neither Peking nor Taipei. This effort failed when a top French spokesman said flatly, "This is not a two-China policy-we recognize Taipei as the government...
Besides comedy characters, Bustelli molded Turks and Chinese, cherubs and beggars, a mushroom venderess and a mousetrap vendor. Together, his figurines make up a cross section of the rococo age. Shortly after Bustelli's death, rococo faded away, leaving an enduring trace in the spirited forms and vibrant colors preserved beneath the glaze of an obscure artist's figurines...