Word: reflect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midweek, a 15-hour strike by 300,000. gas and electrical workers all but paralyzed all France. Industry shut down, transport became hopelessly tangled. Elevators and subways halted, refrigerators and stoves ceased operating. France sat down to a cold dinner to reflect by candlelight on the strikers' demands for 30% wage increases in the face of inflation's unsettling statistics; e.g., apartment rents have doubled in the past year...
...Government policies in the countries of Asia and Africa vary a great deal," Masani said, "but they inevitably reflect fear of losing their newly won independence and impatience to cease being among the world's forgotten peoples. Sometimes these policies are marked by a certain amount of doctrinaire thinking and preconceptions that are a hangover of a period when power and responsibility were denied to the sons of the soil. Insofar as foreign investment is concerned, the door is open, but it is true that no one waits at the door with open arms...
...acres: the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The huge ranch operation and the Mormons' dozens of other bustling business ventures − including a Hawaiian sugar plantation, cattle ranches in western Canada, two insurance companies and 72 buildings in downtown Salt Lake City −reflect the strong tradition of communal ownership begun in Utah no years ago. The Mormons (membership: nearly 1,500,000) have been criticized for their church's intense participation in business. Mormon leaders reply that the church's earnings provide for its needy, and that by Mormon tradition large stores...
...idle, for "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion" and there will be orgies of reports, conferences and initialing of each other's papers. After a strenuous day of memo-passing, A will still miss the commuter's special, but he will reflect with "a wry smile that late hours, like gray hairs, are among the penalties of success...
...Philip would visit President Eisenhower in Washington. Before returning home to London, they also planned a day-long sightseeing tour of New York City. On a Canadian radio-TV hookup, Elizabeth said: "When you hear or read about the events in Washington and other places, I want you to reflect that it is the Queen of Canada and her husband who are concerned in them...