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...tactful gesture won him entree into the best Peronista circles. In recent weeks Agusti had found that Visca's newsprint squeeze was tightening uncomfortably on his independent journal Córdoba (circ. 20,000). With easy confidence he went to call on Visca at the congressional palace to straighten things...
India's Sir Benegal Rau said the U.N. had better straighten out some rules, otherwise "a government of party A might be recognized by the General Assembly while that of party B would be recognized by the Security Council." Clearly, that would never...
...pension plans or started new ones, adding millions to the cost of doing business in 1949. The changes did not settle the problem; they did sketch its enormous size. At year's end there were still about 11.5 million unionists without pensions, and union labor hoped to straighten this out in 1950. Part of the cost of pensions was a burden that industry could, and should, bear-if labor's demands were reasonable. But many businessmen also argued for a liberalization of the Federal Government's social-security payments, lest the burden on private enterprise grow...
Further, there were too many nominees. This meant that voting was necessarily confused, and that except for the top men, the candidates were separated by margins so small as to be nearly meaningless. There are three solutions which, though perhaps not ideal, could straighten this out: 1. have a primary election and then a run-off; 2. require more signatures on nominating petitions, insuring both a smaller slate and nominees who are known to the voters; 3. at least institute preferential voting to help offset the size of the ballot...
...hearing will attempt to straighten out three significant conflicts in the testimony given thus far in the discrimination case...