Word: tacit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anti-Trust Laws. The President is to set aside at will the Sherman and Clayton Acts to permit industrial work & wage codes to operate legally. The Senate attempted to nullify industrial control by prohibiting price-fixing. A tacit admission that price-fixing is to form a part of most trade agreements was made when that prohibition was finally knocked...
...decision over a treaty which involves the liquidation of the Versailles restrictions on the Central Powers -- restrictions which left France tremendously powerful -- would tend to show not a sudden burst of altruism, but the effect of outside pressure. In short, Deladier and has advisers are afraid of the tacit coalition between England, Italy, Germany, Austria, and Hungary. That Italy is willing to cooperate with Great Britain seems quite logical, in consideration of the facts that the British fleet controls the Mediterranean, that MacDonald is holding out a tempting offer of colonies which Italy never received for her part...
...opening year of a number of the seven Houses, the majority of the new inhabitants were admitted with the tacit understanding that they would have first choice of next year's vacated rooms. Consequently, a number of men wishing to change rooms last year were surprised and annoyed when they found it impossible to do so in cases where the change involved paying a rate more than forty dollars lower than the rent which they paid for the room they wished to vacate...
...essence, training is simply intended to give a team a better chance of winning. It is confined chiefly to major sports, and a member of a major sport team would appear to be under a tacit agreement to cooperate towards victory by keeping training. Yet men are not always out to win; they are often out merely to enjoy a sport. Some men will get more out of a sport by keeping strict training, others not. It is obvious that athletes who break training are lessening the chances of their team for victory, and it is equally apparent that they...
...possible damage to the pound sterling. Bankers in The City were aware that no foreign issues can be floated in London but had no idea that the Bank of England's financial dictatorship extended to private deals of the Boots type. And since the Bank's tacit consent had already been given they fumed at this change of opinion. Said one angry editor: "Philip Hill might be expected to receive congratulations and possibly even mention in the next honors list for bringing a great British company back to British control. But instead the Treasury has selected its largest...