Word: particularized
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...creditor nation, and most of its industries no longer need protection. Furthermore, most businessmen are well aware that a tariff is actually only a concealed subsidy to a particular industry paid for by all consumers. Since World War IPs end, the U.S. has spent $38 billion on foreign aid. In the same period, the amount of the excess of U.S. exports over imports has totaled $34 billion...
These two deficiencies seriously mar what otherwise would be an excellent report. Because of this, we hope that the Senior Fellows--as well as their new Chairman, the future President--will consider this as a Supreme Court Justice once considered a particular majority decision. This decision, he said, is like a railroad excursion ticket, good for today and today only. Yet this should not be the final word, for there is much that is good in the Corporation's handling of these cases. The extreme liberal may be outraged by the fact that Harvard, in a statement retaining...
...Dana expressed a "particular desire that the current and now traditional and liberal policies of the University be followed and that these awards be made without regard to race, color or creed...
Grand Strategy. Since 1949, when the U.S.S.R. set off its first atomic explosion, U.S. grand strategy has been based on the proposition that the only way to prevent or to meet a Soviet atomic attack is to build up U.S. air power with particular emphasis on a strong retaliatory force, i.e., the Strategic Air Command. The Eisenhower defense budget, by striking sharply at plans for the Air Force buildup, seemed to imply either 1) some reservations about that strategic concept, or 2) a decision that, while the concept is right, its execution is unrealistic. The decision to cut back...
Unburdened with any particular sense of the realistic or humane, Stalag 17 is a heartless jape that manages to be both lively and amusing. The sardonic talents of Producer-Director-Co-Scenarist Billy (Sunset Boulevard) Wilder are well tuned to these rather ghoulish goings on. Taking the action out of the barrack confines and into the barbed-wire compound at intervals, he has made a fluent film of the play. He has also got crisp characterizations from his cast. William Holden gives one of his quietly competent performances as a cynical G.I. Otto Preminger and Sig Ruman play comedy Nazis...