Word: present
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President's top economic advisers had a description of the country's present condition: "There are four stages of economic deterioration-concern, apprehension, jitters and panic. We're now somewhere in between the upper levels of concern and the lower levels of apprehension...
Presumably, too, the Administration was dead set against another round of wage increases (see BUSINESS), but it just couldn't bring itself to say so. In trying to write around this painful subject, the President's economic advisers composed some masterful doubletalk. Sample: At the present time both employers and workers should strive to work out adjustments which will help to stimulate activity, bearing in mind the need both for holding business costs down and for maintaining consumer purchasing power at high levels...
...continue its present passive attitude toward Asiatic communism. This is a well-worn track and needs no further exploration. It means a little money here, and a diplomatic note of protest there. It is easy, cheap -and useless. Judging by past experience, this policy would end with Communist domination of Asia...
...POWER against communism, under all circumstances, to hold key coastal and offshore positions-Japan, Korea, Formosa, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore. Militarily, this program is within present U.S. capabilities. It would not save Asia, but it would save the Pacific, at least temporarily...
...Finally," Joad concludes, "such a course has been known to give men a serenity of outlook. It may not in our present age be the best dividend-payer from the purely utilitarian standpoint, but this at least may be said of it, that it sometimes enables men to despise the wealth that it prevents them from acquiring...