Word: stronger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stronger Coattails. The most controversial feature of the Johnson amendment is its proposal to elect the entire...
...compete under present conditions. Last year it sold 322,095 vehicles in the U.S.; General Motors' Chevrolet Division alone sold seven times that number. Smaller volume means higher per-car production costs. With only three lines of cars, A.M.C. is less able to shift assembly lines to a stronger sell (the Ambassador) from a weak one (the American). The company has also been hurt by unsuccessful design. Moreover, running close to the line on finances, A.M.C. is less able to withstand the kind of multimilliondollar styling or engineering mistake that every auto company is susceptible to but that...
...issue with the government in Caracas, and two Venezuelan Cabinet ministers opened talks with Interior Secretary Stewart Udall and Under Secretary of State Thomas Mann. The Venezuelans want more than a simple increase in royalties to bankroll their grand industrial-development plans. Among other things, they seek a stronger voice in the companies' policies and the power to fix the world price of residual fuel oil, of which Venezuela is the prime supplier. By pressuring the subsidiaries of such U.S. giants as Jersey Standard, Gulf, Socony Mobil, Texaco and Atlantic Refining, they also hope to persuade the U.S. Government...
While the foreign oilmen in Venezuela can retaliate by reducing their capital investments at Maracaibo, the Venezuelans appear to have the stronger hand. They know that the companies cannot quickly drum up great supplies of fuel oil from other countries. And they hold in reserve the threat of hitting the companies with further back-tax bills, which could amount to as much as $500 million for 1961-65. Chances are that the oil companies will fight the case through the Venezuelan courts, and then come to a compromise calling for somewhat lower profits and higher prices...
...universal. Though Bergler conceded that homosexuals are not responsible for their inner conflicts, he found that these conflicts "sap so much of their inner energy that the shell is a mixture of superciliousness, fake aggression and whimpering. Like all psychic masochists, they are subservient when confronted by a stronger person, merciless when in power, unscrupulous about trampling on a weaker person...