Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Catholic Church-and only the Catholic Church-that throws the question mark into the campaign of Catholic candidates...
Last week, answering a press-conference question, Ike admitted that he was working on a reorganization program designed to conserve the President's energies for important statecraft. He killed off talk about the establishment of two additional "vice presidencies"; there is a "constitutional, traditional meaning" for the term Vice President, said he, and it could not be applied to any other job. Ike did not elaborate, but the White House is hard at work on a plan that would establish two "assistants to the President" in appointive posts subject to Senate confirmation, ranking at least with Cabinet members...
...many years have passed since then. But--to coin a phrase--the more things change the more they remain the same. In the 1930's the chief campus concern was: how many goldfish can a college student swallow at one sitting? Today, the great question seems to be this: how many students can inhabit a telephone booth at once? (A connection between the booth and the fish also arises from the fact that buthia is ancient Greek for "water animals...
Blough and his colleagues realize that the question of wage hikes in the steel industry is no longer merely a domestic problem, but one that affects the whole U.S. position in world steel. This year the U.S. industry has received a warning that it cannot isolate itself from the realities of world steel without suffering the consequences. If it does not heed the warning, it must pay the consequences in smaller sales and, eventually, in fewer jobs...
...employees, he presents his reasons for crying "halt" as if he were preparing a legal brief. Says he: "The results of collective bargaining between the companies and the steelworkers' union have been characterized by unsustainable cost increases, major strikes and government intervention. It is time to raise the question as to whether nationwide wage policies, industry-wide strike power, the ability to shut down industries and bring economic America to its knees are necessary or right...