Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...profit motive appear regularly in the party theoretical journal, Novo Vreme, and although the economy is still predominantly controlled by central authorities, a pilot experiment in decentralization proved outstandingly successful last year. The Liliana Dimitrova textile plant in Sofia was permitted to work out its own production plan, obtain its own materials and dispose of its own goods with a minimum of higher direction. Not only did the plant exceed its planned requirements, but by the year's end it had enough of a profit margin to permit a 10% wage increase. This year 50 plants have adopted...
...three months. And, like his father's mother, the model for Mrs. Tyrone in Long Day's Journey into Night, Shane has been for 20 years a drug addict. Last spring in Manhattan, he was arrested for trying to steal prescription blanks to obtain narcotics. Last week, calling him "the most bedraggled, woebegone man ever to come before this bench," the judge gave Shane a suspended sentence. Perhaps his luck is changing: with some $200,000 his wife recently inherited, he has promised to settle with her in Ireland to start life anew...
This week Reuther will turn his full attention to General Motors, attempt to obtain similar economic concessions from the biggest and richest of the Big Three. Although there are troublesome "noneconomic" issues involving production standards and working conditions to be resolved with G.M., Reuther seems well on his way toward a perfect season. Would the U.A.W. seek even more from G.M.? Promised Reuther...
...CIVIL RIGHTS. The Democrats call for "full observance" and "fair, effective enforcement" of the new civil rights law, reaffirm "our belief that lawless disregard for the rights of others is wrong-whether used to deny equal rights or to obtain equal rights," hold that "true democracy of opportunity will not be served by establishing quotas based on the same false distinctions we seek to erase, nor can the effects of prejudice be neutralized by the expedient of preferential practices." Thus the Democrats match the Republicans, who, besides promising "full implementation and faithful execution of the Civil Rights...
...Harvard, Isaac hopes to use Phillips Brooks House as his headquarters and is attempting to obtain assistance in conducting the drive from Harvard and summer school students...