Word: presents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...medicine, business and law. But, more important, it is an economical solution to what could be an unpleasant financial problem. Both of the alternates--deconversion of overcrowded suites by putting students into the vacated rooms, and use of the empty rooms for non-resident tutors' offices--would force the present number of students to pay for a larger number of rooms--presumably through a sizable increase in room rents, and reduction of rent adjustment...
...telephone is a Jekyll and Hyde invention, a curse and plague as often as it is a convenience. We list our present lack of a telephone as our greatest luxury. We no longer must drop whatever we are doing, day or night, and run to answer that raucous bell. I now have leisure to pursue a hobby, enjoy good music, read a book or converse with my wife. We are not dragged off against our will to meetings. We no longer must put up with the leechlike telephone salesmen and solicitors. Meanwhile, our health is better as we have eliminated...
...view of TIME's regard for the truth, I know you will correct a misrepresentation which has twice occurred in TIME publications involving me, most recently in the March 2 issue. I have never told Lyndon Johnson that I was "the biggest birthday present of 'em all" for him. In fact I have never told Lyndon that I was any kind of a present for anyone...
Since nominations are made by party politicians, Kennedy's hardest politicking was with 275 party faithful at lunch. He mentioned every important guest in the room and every top Democratic office holder, present or not, before he swung into a lively demonstration of his talent for flaying Republicans...
Against him, some U.S. economists argue that to equate past and present price upcreep is unsound, that creeping inflation is a graver menace than it used to be. Economist Burns points out that the past few decades have gradually brought two new inflationary factors into the U.S.'s economic structure: 1) Big Labor's power to force wages up even when demand is falling, and 2) Big Business' tendency to eliminate price competition, set profitable "administered prices," and restrict cornpetition to quality, styling, service, etc. The combined result, says Burns, is that instead of slipping downward when...