Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Letter & Spirit. Last week Mayor La Pira was in Rome-where many officials in the Pella government affectionately call him "Giorgio"-trying to persuade the government to run Pignone and save 1,750 jobs. (The government-run Institute for Industrial Reconstruction, an inheritance from Mussolini, keeps several plants going at a loss rather than add their workers to Italy's unemployment rolls.) Fumed Giorgio La Pira: "This coldly calculated liquidation has offended the city of Florence. Seldom, as in this case, has the letter of the law served to cover so much inhumanity of spirit...
...will have to establish heir own policy before full-scale bargaining can begin. Such pre-conference agreements must meet certain basic requirements: Triestc must be made a free port, the Zones must not be so completely separated that the trade both sectors require is impossible. And these negotiations must save the prestige of both countries and abate the rampant nationalism which the United States has promoted in the name of European defense. Trieste is one of the world's hot sports; the United States and Britain should take action at once to limit this heat to the conference table...
...there is still a need for more co-operative houses. The present ones have been great successes. Their residents are able to save $250 in their yearly living expenses compared with girls in economy doubles, the next cheapest arrangement, in other college dormitories...
...still so sensitive to the tendency of stockholders to equate planes with yachts that they will not put their names on their aircraft. But business has sprouted wings because it had to; the pace of business has stepped up immensely since the war, and a company plane can save an executive 30% in travel time. In it, he can hop around the country and still be home on weekends, an important factor in keeping a key man if his job requires almost continuous travel...
...reckoned. "Now all this nightmare picture had vanished. In its place was the vision-fair and bright indeed it seemed-of the end of the whole war in one or two violent shocks." Churchill thought this "almost supernatural weapon" would induce the Pacific enemy to surrender and thus save many Japanese lives as well...