Word: specializations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of the bad habits belong to labor: wage increases not based upon increases in productivity mean higher prices, lower sales, fewer jobs. "The pattern of spectacular competitive wage increases is relatively new in American labor. It arose after 1946 because of special postwar conditions...
...Such a convention, which I may call a Magna Carta for the protection of foreign interests, should provide for a special international court of arbitration, which would determine whether cases brought before it involve violation of principles. I could well imagine that in case of particularly serious violations, the court of arbitration will be entitled by the terms of the treaty to oblige the member countries to refuse new private or public loans and credits to the country in default." The Universal Instinct. Through such efforts toward an orderly system that satisfies the principles held in common by most nations...
...point, as if stimulated by all the excitement she was causing, the queen seemed to rally. But then, one morning, as a chill wind blew, the men began to wail, the women shed their jewelry, and throughout the encampment the gypsies sipped a scalding special brew out of silver-plated cups. They dressed the queen in her best flowered skirt, put shiny new shoes on her feet, ringed her wrists and fingers with gold. Only a few minutes before, having received the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church, Queen Mimi had whispered, "Forgive whoever does wrong," and then closed...
Inflation and high taxes have somewhat cooled the Swedish enthusiasm for statism. In postwar elections the Socialists have gradually lost strength, the more conservative parties gained. Whether this cooling is decisive enough to topple the Socialists from their long-held power will be seen in the special elections which must now be held, probably on June...
Approximately two thirds of the applicants came from the 29 major Eastern colleges which are members of the School's "Co-operative Plan." Applicants approved by a faculty committee in each college are given priority in admission, and are eligible for special scholarship funds...