Word: think
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think Nixon's trip did more good than harm or more harm than good?" asked the poll takers. In every capital, at least a plurality voted for more good than harm-and in Lima, where stones flew, 72% voted approval of Nixon's visit...
...experts think that inventory liquidation, still proceeding at a fantastic $7 billion annual clip, will level off rapidly, perhaps even reverse into a modest inventory accumulation. The uncertainties of international affairs will cause many a manufacturer, wholesaler and retailer to think twice before eating more deeply into his stocks. The wise businessmen will tend to keep inventories level, or increase them a bit as a hedge against possible emergency. Said a Cleveland machine tool manufacturer: "Our story to customers is that now is the time to buy before we get jammed." In the same way, businessmen look for industrial expansion...
...consumer uncertainty, the Center reports an overwhelming feeling among consumers that a real depression is impossible, detects only a slight impairment of the "underlying feelings of confidence and security which characterized the past ten years." In 1958 the U.S. consumer has merely been forced to think twice about what he buys. With one in six families reporting some joblessness in the past year, the percentage that said they were financially better off this June than a year ago was down considerably from 32% to 22%. Yet when it comes to the future, a full 30% expect to be better...
...program has not had to pay a single claim. One reason is that many really unstable countries, e.g., Indonesia, have not signed up. But the most significant reason is that the agreements impress member nations with a sense of responsibility before the world, help make them think twice before permitting or taking any wild action. Says Charles Warden, director of the program: "Our agreement with the country means that the government has taken the first step in recognizing the international morality of contracts. The presence of agreements has a very healthy effect. The absence is worrisome...
...learned the unforgiving trade of the fighter pilot. He was an ace when he heard that the entire outfit was about to be drafted into the Army. By then, Boyington suspected that "Laughing Boy" Chennault was old-school Army, and had no use for marines. ("I shouldn't think he would even want a dead marine's body stinking up his precious China.") So, just ahead of General Chennault's efforts to get him into the new 10th Air Force, U.S.A., Greg Boyington beat it out of China and applied for reinstatement in the U.S. Marine Corps...