Word: objectionable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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For Trippe, the only objection to a merger with TWA was that a straight share-for-share exchange of stock would make Howard Hughes the biggest single shareholder in the merged company. Under the terms announced last week, that problem is solved by a complex device: if the merger goes...
Evidently they have not. The plenum will have to deal with inefficient industrial production, the long-debated need for capitalist-style incentives, and the continuing failure of Soviet agriculture, including Khrushchev's pet virgin lands project in Kazakhstan. Certain to come under scrutiny will be the most violent outburst...
The interhouse move was first defeated in Dunster amid cries of "creeping mergerism" and the objection that girls in the dining hall would become too common and make eating uncomfortable for House members.
The Masters' concern for the tranquillity of the Houses is understandable; but a leaflet, quietly slipped under a door, disturbs no one. Nor is the "wastepaper" problem an important objection to free distribution, for such literature as the political groups have the resources to produce cannot add significantly to the...
Another objection to Eddington's principle is that the so-called constants of nature,--for example, the fine-structure constant, 137--when derived in accordance with his ideas, are "absolutely constant," whereas in several cosmological theories they are represented as increasing decreasing, depending in one way or another on the...