Word: stood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...package-the level at which California's Edgar Kaiser had urged his fellow steel men to settle. Industry's Cooper stonily told the fact finders that McDonald's package would really cost 33?, and the proposal was "unacceptable"; in its place he stood on a threeyear, 30? package (which the steelworkers said was worth only 14½ over the next two years) and put forward an industry proposal to submit the demand for work-rule changes to binding arbitration. McDonald called this proposal "phony." There was still no bargaining, no "give...
...north wind sliced through his home town, and the thermometer stood at 41°, the President of the U.S. removed his hat and topcoat, and stepped up to address the spectators: "Whenever I return here," said he, "I invariably sense, in these surroundings, an atmosphere of simplicity and peace ... My mind goes back nostalgically to the conditions I knew as a boy. We did not then know the term 'world tension'; life was peaceful, serene and happy...
...together." Abbas' aides denied that he had made the statement, but few doubted that the interview had taken place. And Paris was plainly getting the signal; in the National Assembly, Premier Michel Debre emphasized that the French offer of cease-fire talks still stood, added that rebel leaders would be guaranteed safe conduct home if discussions collapsed...
...Bond stood with his foot poised against the outboard escape door, which would open when pressure inside and out was equalized. After 25 seconds, he felt it give, and yelled: "On the bottom!" Tuckfield closed the air inlet. They were now up to their necks in water, and breathing air at a pressure of about ten atmospheres, 134 p.s.i. above normal. Instead of being searing hot, as they had feared, it proved comfortably warming. But there was no time to enjoy it. Not a second could be lost, or they would begin to suffer nitrogen poisoning-Jacques Yves Cousteau...
After three months of the longest industry-wide steel strike in U.S. history, the shelves of industry were finally showing some bare spots. Manufacturing and trade inventories at the end of August stood at $89.4 billion, a decline of $400 million from the previous month. Commerce Department experts predicted that inventories, which had been building up at an annual rate of $9.8 billion in the second quarter, would be cut so sharply that the rate may drop by more than $10 billion in the third quarter. Chiefly because of the depletion in inventories, they expect the gross national product...