Word: threatener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Does the present wave of mergers threaten to build up a set of competition-crushing monopolies? Just the reverse seems to be true. Small companies consolidate so that they can better compete with bigger firms in their industries. Companies that diversify into new fields bring along new ideas to challenge the industry leaders. If television had been developed 50 years ago, the chances are that one company would have had a monopoly for many years. But recently so many firms have been looking for new products and markets that dozens went into television, quickly drove set prices down...
...common Lord to heal the breach between us and to eliminate the scandal of our enmities, which threaten the common decencies and the good order of our country. We would be well advised to remember that the secularism which we pretend to abhor has at least one resource necessary for the health of a democratic community It knows how to make pragmatic compromises in order to achieve harmony between seemingly incompatible positions, and Christian charity would accomplish the same end if Christians were humble enough to achieve the necessary charity...
...looks wide open with defending champion Fred Schlereth of Columbia favored. Harvard's Dave Alpers, Cornell's Andy Dedagian, and Princeton's Joe Meyers should threaten...
Gerard David Schine, 27, private, U.S. Army Military Police, was transferred last week from Camp Gordon, Ga. to Fort Myer, Va., across the Potomac from Washington, to be available for the great investigation, whose central question is: Did McCarthy threaten to blackmail the Army on Schine's behalf or did the Army threaten to use Schine as its blackmail weapon against McCarthy? When newsmen spotted Schine in the Senate Office Building last week, he ignored their questions, bounded up a staircase, three steps at a stride...
...height of her slinky period and she sings "How Little We Know." It comes to grips with the cosmos and sums it up in the single question "was you ever bit by a dead bee?" There are wise cracks and tough talks with sizzling looks that promise kisses or threaten bloodied noses. Sudden death and marlin fishing are the he-man business of Captain Harry Morgan: and both are Bogart's field of concentration...