Word: strength
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more basic interest in mind, and he had expressed it through Press Secretary James Hagerty: "The situation is not collective bargaining, which is the instrument open to a free people in major economic disputes. This seems to be getting down more and more to a trial of strength between two groups with the American public the greatest loser. I might add the President has no intention of letting the American people be the greatest loser...
Thus, a swing to the Tories of a small fraction of the British electorate in marginal constituencies was enough to jump their Commons majority from 53 to 100 seats. Liberals, on the strength of their 1,600,000 popular vote, forecast with eager optimism that they would soon succeed Labor as the chief opposition party -a prediction that overlooked the fact that more than 40% of British voters stuck by Labor through the sweep. But the fact remained that for Britain's 53-year-old Labor Party it was a staggering defeat, threatening to open never-healed wounds, confronting...
...generous stock-option plans, and he gave employee morale a quick boost by putting in a new pension plan. He reorganized Ward's management structure, bolstered confidence by delegating authority, scrapped Sewell Avery's outlandish rules. He began to change Ward's cash hoard into merchandising strength in 1955, since then has redecorated nearly 376 of the company's 566 stores, air-conditioned 73 of them, opened more than 296 new catalogue stores in growing areas. To increase volume quickly, he bought control of four independent stores in the Chicago area, opened some 20 new modern...
...Tuesday, the incurable optimism always present during any football season, no matter how barren, had returned in almost full strength. The Columbia game was now only four days away; and the team had one of its best practices of the fall. Even the Ivy title was not lost. "If Bob Blackman can say Dartmouth is still in the running after a loss and a tie, then we certainly have a good chance," Haughie says. Ravenel predicts, "The Ivy champion will probably lose two games or so, and someone will beat Penn. We could be the team...
...Like a pig in a poke" is the way coach Bruce Munro describes this morning's soccer game with Columbia. The varsity will face the Lions here at 11 a.m., and nothing about the contest--not Columbia's strength, the Crimson's lineup, the rules, or the condition of the playing field--is without its own measure of uncertainty...