Word: sole
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Revolution Unlikely. Plucky Helen Suzman, sole parliamentary voice of South Africa's small, anti-apartheid Progressive Party, accurately called it "slave labor." Said she: "The government imagines the African as a disembodied pair of black hands to work for the whites...
...Gives the President sole power to present budget bills, and specifically forbids the inflation-minded Congress from voting more money than the President requests...
However, Brown, the sole newcomer, should offer some real competition. The Bruins also had a pretty good indoor season--they finished undefeated...
...rose to $61 million. Among other things, the firm owns and operates Japan's biggest bus and taxi fleets, seven Japanese hotels and a string of driving schools, travel agencies and sporting-goods shops. It is also Japan's largest distributor of Chrysler Corp. autos and its sole distributor of International Harvester farm and construction equipment. As if all this were not enough, Osano last year bought three of the Sheraton Corp.'s Hawaiian hotels (the SurfRider, Moana, and Princess Kaiulani), thus becoming the largest individual Japanese investor in the U.S. He figures that, after the Japanese...
...Imperial Navy. At war's end, expecting an eventual travel boom, he used his profits to start buying hotels, also began acquiring bus and taxi companies. After the Korean war, as prospering Japanese businessmen began buying more foreign goods, he started importing U.S. autos and golf clubs. As sole owner of his many-sided business empire, Osano has amassed a personal fortune of about $140 million...