Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still unsettled was the major source of irritation between the two nations: possession of western New Guinea, which is still under Dutch rule. The infant Indonesian government, which has trouble enough trying to maintain order over its 78 million people, demands western New Guinea too. But The Netherlands refuses to give it up as the last relic of its imperial prestige in the area...
...under American rule, used to be known as Occupation Day in the Philippines. It celebrated the day U.S. armed forces wrested control of the islands from the Spaniards. When Filipinos got their independence in 1946, they abruptly ceased observing...
...Chicago, the Detroit Lions, National Football League Champions last year, agreed to the intercollegiate limited-substitution rule, played an exhibition game of one-platoon football with the College All-Stars, kept their regular quarterback, Bobby Layne, on the bench, and still outshone the Stars in every department. Final score...
Under the Democratic Administration, the Federal Trade Commission followed the "per se" rule in cracking down on mergers, assumed that any merger involving a large sum of money probably interfered per se with competition. Under the Republicans, FTC has adopted a new "rule of reason." The test: Will a merger hamper competition in fact? As a result, only two merger cases are now pending before FTC. Of the hundreds of other mergers that have recently taken place, the great majority have served to give business a keener competitive edge...
Connolly operated on a single ground rule, "the pursuit of quality." He pursued and printed such first-rate writers as T. S. Eliot, Andre Gide, Arthur Koestler, Evelyn Waugh and W. H. Auden. Even in wartime, Connolly kept Horizon's standards up and its voice down, made the magazine a kind of semiprecious touchstone of the arts. Earnest literati in England and the U.S. used it to deck their coffee tables and to restock their mental shelves. In The Golden Horizon, Connolly picks a scant 600 pages to represent the original 10,000. The result suggests that Horizon often...