Word: retardant
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...fixing has always failed, from Diocletian* to Truman . . ." Free prices "provide the best method of stimulating production of the things that are really needed, and of restricting consumption of the things that are in short supply." To Leffingwell, frozen wages are no better than frozen prices: they "tend to retard the movement of men from nonessential to essential jobs ... I do not believe in forced labor . . . and that is what wage-fixing means...
During the next ten years, Slichter continued, "we must retard the rapid rise in government expenditures, the rapid spread of government intervention in business, and the drop in influence of businessmen in our communities...
Last week Congress proposed a joint resolution to make a "full and complete investigation of all lobbying activities intended to influence, encourage, or retard legislation." Backed by the Democratic party, this step would presumably also carry the approval and support of the Justice Department and of President Truman, who sharply attacked lobbying activities in the Eightieth Congress during his campaign last summer...
...intense Dr. Blount, 48, was the hit of the convention. So many doctors were jotting down notes that the crowded green and gold grand ballroom of Chicago's Palmer House looked like a classroom. Dr. Blount's method: using stainless steel staples with ¾ inch prongs to retard growth of the longer...
...mighty Piano Concerto No. 2. This time, at the end of the rehearsal, the Maestro had only one suggestion for "Volodya": Toscanini trotted to the piano, plunked out a passage while Soloist Horowitz, standing by and towering over him, listened carefully and respectfully. They agreed to leave out one retard...