Word: tampere
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would seem that a government for and by the people would move first to discourage joyriding abroad and tamper last with the morale of its lifeline...
...Belle Helene): in Agate's words, "to furbish up the old sparkle and avoid substituting a new one, to stick to the operette and to keep the thing French." The solution arrived at for "Albert Marre's production," as the current venture is billed, is to tinker and tamper and mess and fuss and fiddle and diddle and hope for the best. The result not surprisingly, is a galimafree, or, as we say in America, a hash...
...make no real concession at all on Berlin. For Berlin has become both a symbol and a vital test of the West's determination to resist Communist encroachment against the free world. The legal foundation on which Western possession of the city rests is complex and to tamper with it is risky. As De Gaulle observed during his visit to Canada last month: "If we do not want an easing of tensions, then we can try for a solution in Berlin. But if we want an easing, we must...
Some other witnesses violently opposed any policing of installment practices. Maintaining that "our credit system is too vital for the Government to tamper with," A. Leonidas Trotta, credit research director of the National Retail Merchants Association, argued that people expect to pay more when they receive the benefits of installment buying. Said he: "To give them too much information about financing costs would only befuddle them...