Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kearns thought his argument would tranquilize Canadian concern, some sharp editorial retorts soon gave him reason to think otherwise. "That is the wrong tone to use, even with economic vassals," snapped the Toronto Star. "Canadians are perfectly aware that U.S. capital comes in here because this is a profitable country in which to invest, not for altruistic reasons. U.S. capital dominates many key Canadian industries. What this means is that the making of economic decisions affecting Canada lies far too often in non-Canadian hands." Said the Financial Post: "Canadians wonder whether they can call their country their own when...
...Mexico, there was little reason for Columnist Baroni to be deeply disturbed by the exposure. He was following an established custom, a journalistic practice common in many places in Latin America. Many a Mexican newsman is for sale; a chief duty of government press officers is to disburse igualas (fees) to reporters...
Long-Range Challenge. One reason for the rise is that U.S. industry rolled into 1959 with more than $18 billion in capital funds that can be invested in inventories or plants. Industries have piled inventories so high (adding at an annual rate of $10.4 billion in the second quarter alone) that economists feel they will now begin to channel their funds into new plants to meet consumers' rising demands. That does not mean that the inventory boom has spent itself; inventories have moved up close to the peak level of January 1957, but sales have moved up even faster...
...Blue Angel (20th Century-Fox). "Could a man have a better reason for throwing his life away?" ask the big ads for this glossy U.S. remake of a 1930 German classic. The answer the admen clearly expect from every red-blooded male is: No, not when the "reason" is long-limbed May (rhymes with thigh) Britt, Hollywood's newest sex goddess. This is not the answer they are likely to get from anyone who saw Marlene Dietrich in the original Blue Angel...
...mysticism and the mystique of power. The ironic Artist Tutmose-whose hauntingly beautiful head of Nefertiti is on view in West Berlin's Dahlem Museum-solves only part of the puzzle when, near the book's end, he concludes that "beyond our own motives, existence has no reason." Perhaps, Stacton seems to be saying, the puzzle of existence constitutes its own reason...