Word: quos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resignation satisfied only two-thirds of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. clean up or get out orders. The house was still not clean: Klenert, in resigning, had woven an agreement for $104,000 in severance pay as a quid pro quo for leaving quickly. But at week's end that too was settled. The union's executive board voted to give Klenert the skid without a quid...
Most of the uncertainties just adumbrated can be removed. Reluctance to give up the status quo or the desire, having been hazed yourself, to go and do likewise, have permitted these uncertainties to be kept alive. Still, we might tolerate them if we could proudly point to the results of the system--or lack of system. Far too often we cannot...
...libel-probably because nobody takes him that seriously. He has no paid professional legmen, but he finds policemen "fantastic sources-after all, they've got eight hours to watch four blocks," and admits that press-agents give.him tips and check items for him on a quid pro quo basis. The quo: "Tickets for a play, or maybe a member of their family needs...
Along with the offer to surrender these functions went a healthy quid pro quo: to finance them at the state level, the U.S. was prepared to relinquish to the states roughly a half share of federal inheritance and gift taxes ($1.3 billion this year), and about $542 million in excise taxes collected on such items as telephone calls and theater tickets...
Gervasi has appeared in "Quo Vadis" and "Barefoot Contessa." Segal has appeared in productions at Harvard in French and Greek as well as in English. Lumbard is Director of the New Theater Workshop and has appeared in many Shakespearian productions over the past three years, Claman added...