Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What makes the chop-down odds so high in this particular case is the fact that the team has been defying expectations in a most puzzling fashion all season. Estimates of its merits have had to be revised almost from week to week; and there is no reason for thinking that this situation will change in the time that remains...
...broad, with good reason, demands triple damages-and wins them from a local court. But Kovacs only leers happily around his cigar, and his lawyers inform her lawyer (Jack Lemmon): "We have the entire appellate structure of the State of Maine before us." Deciding that two can play dirty pool, the heroine slaps a writ of execution on the villain, "attaches" the next train that happens to come through town, parks it on a spur track and challenges the brute to top that. He does. He demands rent for the spur track - $1 a foot...
...professional traders had just about run out of things to say about the market. Wall Street's brokers and analysts have chewed the juice out of all the minor, technical reasons for the continuing rise. Now they are coming to recognize the great, overriding reason: business is fine and getting better. The U.S. is off on a brand new boom...
RECORD BRITISH EXPORTS to U.S. last month rose to $100,520,000 from previous high (last January) of $73,920,000. Reason for the jump: increased car shipments, which account for nearly one-third of total. By contrast U.S. exports abroad continue...
...question Administration officers on important policy decisions which are often made without reference to undergraduate opinion. The Council started the Harvard-Columbia Conference on Education which brought delegates from comparable colleges together to discuss common problems. The NSA's failure to provide this kind of program was a major reason for last fall's withdrawal. In both cases the Council filled long-neglected needs with programs which seem to have good futures...