Word: retort
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...production, jobs, income and investment in future growth. These economists contend that presidential guidelines on wage-price increases would have achieved success sooner and that, in order to revive the economy, the Government can afford now to spend more and expand the money supply even faster. Nixon men retort that both the braking of inflation and the economic revival could only be accomplished gradually. As Election Day nears, voters will hear more such arguments...
...large proportion of union members labor in aged factories. The very nature of the work remains the worst problem. Auto managers concede that most assembly jobs are hard and boring, but they figure that little can be done about it. Managers commonly complain about shoddy workmanship. Union members vehemently retort that the line moves too fast for them to do as good a job as they would like...
...disputing Blanchard's claims, critics argue that lead from car exhausts is indeed a serious problem. Dr. Henry A. Schroeder of Dartmouth Medical School last week cited lead and other heavy metals among the major killers in the rogues' gallery of polluting agents. Blanchard's retort is that the amount of lead absorbed by the body is only the equivalent of "one BB shot of lead inhaled by one man over a period of 70 years...
...male on the scene, Downe's Family Weekly research director, Eli Belil, was moved to retort: "Turn yourself off, baby. If you don't like the magazine, don't read it." Undaunted, an obstinate group of 30 hunkered down to a day-long vigil in Editor John Mack Carter's office. Although he had learned of the visitation a day in advance, the only precaution the editor had taken was to wear a TV-blue shirt for the occasion. He also demonstrated extraordinary patience by hearing the suffragettes out for some eleven hours...
...complained to Rogers that the U.S. was not helping Africa in its battle against white racism in the southern nations. He told Rogers that he had seen the American cemeteries on the battlefields of World War II, when the U.S. fought against fascism. To that, Rogers had a sharp retort. Stating that the U.S. was interested only in solving African problems by peaceful means, he added: "We hope there will be no American cemeteries in Africa in the future...