Word: quarterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always confirmed nominations. It may yet remain for Lewis L. Strauss, up for Secretary of Commerce, to be the first Cabinet nominee turned down for reasons of personality alone. In a long career of public service, Strauss has distinguished himself. But he has a thorny, give-and-ask-no-quarter personality; he also has an implacable opponent of great talent and resolve. The result is Washington's highest drama - played out on the Senate floor, in cloakrooms, at black-tie dinners, in the seats at Griffith Stadium. As written by Bill Bowen and edited by Champ Clark...
...would be radical and painful therapy: Common Market membership would flood the country with industrial products cheaper and better than Spain's own : devaluation and convertibility would be hard on corrupt officials, smugglers and black-marketeers: a heavy cutback in government spending may within a month put a quarter of a million workers on the streets of Barcelona alone. Aware of the dangers-which could be political as well as economic-Ullastres told his Barcelona audience: "This is probably the worst moment through which we will pass . . . There will be a few disturbances, layoffs, reduction of production . . . increases...
...Castro gave no quarter. He published the land-reform decree in the official gazette, ending the last hopes that it would be softened before becoming law. Major terms: foreign land companies, i.e., U.S.-owned sugar firms, must give up their plantations within a year, in exchange for government bonds that may be worth only a quarter of the land's actual value; Cuban landowners must give up all holdings greater than 3,316 acres; 300,000 landless peasants will get 66 acres each (which multiplies out to more than Cuba's total arable land); the peasants must plant...
With a fat second quarter about over, U.S. businessmen looked forward to an even more prosperous third. The National Association of Purchasing Agents, which keeps sensitive fingers on the economy's pulse through the men who buy for major U.S. businesses, reported that 42% of its members expect business to be better in the third quarter than in the second, and 58% believe that the year's second half will easily top the first half. Only 29% foresee a third-quarter decline...
...fact about Simone de Beauvoir that emerges most clearly from the Memoirs is that she lacks the classic French quality of mesure, or "nothing in excess." From the dutiful daughter she became the no-quarter feminist. From the total order of Catholicism, she moved to the universe of total absurdity embodied in atheist existentialism. Even travel, which ought to have broadened her mind, merely served to harden her. Thus, thinking Communism good, she went to Red China (The Long March) and found it a paradise; thinking the U.S. bad, she found America, Day by Day a demihell. The purity fetish...