Word: recoups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RELIGION. "Protestants are just sort of Christianized Jews, aren't they? Whereas Catholics keep up a permanent dialogue with a whole group of phantoms. Catholics are continually gaining and losing heaven, but they always have a chance to recoup themselves...
...Hater. Kennedy had been unable to recoup the Cuba disaster, and the defeat still rankles deeply. But he was certainly able to fight back against Big Steel -and he meant to do just that. To Kennedy, U.S. Steel's price-hike decision was a personal affront. Through Secretary Goldberg, he had all but presided over U.S. Steel's labor contract negotiations. He had personally urged both labor and management to exercise "restraint." His Administration had persuaded United Steelworkers' President David McDonald to agree to a "noninflationary" contract: it included no wage raise, called for an increase...
...pleasant change," offhanded His Royal Highness to President Alfredo Stroessner, "to be in a country which isn't ruled by its people." As the continent's sole surviving dictator glowered around the room and underlings intently began to contemplate their fingernails, Philip quickly sought to recoup by implying that he was merely expressing his pleasure at temporarily escaping Britain's Lord's Day Observance Society, which perennially criticizes the royal family for attending sports events on Sunday. "Here," beamed the peripatetic prince, "the government decides what is to be done, and it is done...
Originally, Du Pont had hoped to recoup its $50 million investment within three or four years. Now it figures that competition will delay recovery by as many as ten years. Buyers, however, stand to benefit. One month after Celanese announced its intention to market Celcon, Du Pont dropped the price of Delrin from...
...Convair backed out of the commercial jet business with the 880 fiasco, it might have held its losses to perhaps $100 million. Instead, in an attempt to recoup its 880 losses, Convair decided to build a long-range jet, the 990, which, by using the then new fanjet engine, would fly faster (635 m.p.h.) than any comparable commercial jet. To save lead time, Convair skipped making a prototype, with the result that when the first 990s came off the production line, they could not fly at the guaranteed speed-and General Dynamics was forced to cut the sale price...