Word: present
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intends to appeal, denying that the circumstances of the present strike are the same as those of nine years ago. Whatever happens in the current strike, however, G.E. can hardly lose. The day after the workers walked out,Chairman Borch told a stockholders' meeting that prices of many products will be raised as soon as the dispute is settled. The company can then pass the price of the wage package right on to the consumers...
...Justice Department will add a new consumer division, to be staffed with a score or more of lawyers and economists. It will operate much like the present antitrust division, filing suits against companies...
This thesis makes relevant all of Fowles' seemingly disjointed literary games, documentary digressions and attempts to make the Victorian past appear imminent to our present. In a cunningly oblique way, the whole novel employs an old-fashioned method to draw a timeless moral. As Fowles' epigraph from Marx puts it: "Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to man himself...
...PRESENT AT THE CREATION by Dean Acheson. 798 pages. W. W. Norton. $12.50 to Dec. 31, then...
...tongue-and not at all afraid to show the biting edge of either-Acheson was not destined for public popularity as Harry Truman's Secretary of State, particularly in an era when careers could be smashed overnight by little more than whispered innuendoes of "Communist" or "leftwing" sympathies. Present confusions and elapsed time, however, have created new perspectives on the diplomatic problems and achievements of the Truman Administration...