Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...obvious result from this short-sightedness is another upward twist in a price spiral already reaching dangerous levels. Most American firms enjoyed fat profits from their 1946 operations. Unions know this almost as well as management, and they would be foolish indeed if they did not take full advantage of it in setting their demands for the coming year. With bargaining power reduced by incontrovertible facts, new highs in labor's terms can be avoided only by the slim margin of union moderation, at a time when unionists are bearing the brunt of a greatly increased cost of living. Labor...
Albania opposed the British proposal in a short statement to the Council but some delegates held that since Albania agreed to accept the Council's decision the Soviet satellite was obligated to go to court...
Dean Sperry, whose sixty-fifth birthday last Saturday leaves him one year short of the retirement age, became dean in 1922. He is also Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, professor of Homiletics the art of preaching, and chairman of the Beard of Preachers...
Professor Matthiessen will open the evening with a short talk on the social implications of art and the relationship of the artist to his society, in which he will evaluate some of the contributions of Marxist critics. Following this, he will direct a discussion from the floor...
...personnel, must take a sizable share of the responsibility. But neither of these is an insurmountable obstacle--the financial problem must necessarily remain as a difficulty ever-present, and can hardly be offered as an impassable barrier against any future progress; the question of personnel deficiency is essentially a short run matter. Both of these should be causes of temporary reduction, not permanent de-emphasis of tutorial...