Word: thrift
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...with three purposes in mind: to supervise established enterprises and promote new business ventures for the benefit of students in need of financial aid; to provide experience in the practical management of business affairs; and "to foster, encourage and inculcate in its members qualities and habits of work, thrift, and self-reliance...
...veto rattled Democrats in both halls of Congress. Senate Leader Johnson attacked "vetoes and vetoes and vetoes," chided Ike for requiring Congress to pass his proposals "without crossing a 't' or dotting an 'i.' " But the odds were high that Eisenhower, riding the tide of thrift, would eventually get what Johnson knew the White House wanted: a housing law that renews the nearly exhausted FHA mortgage-insurance authority, extends home-improvement and military-housing loan insurance programs and costs about the $1.6 billion the President asked in the first place...
...French used to say, pocketing the 5-centime change on their glass of Pernod. But this ancient expression of French thrift became meaningless when, with the fall of the franc that began with World War I, the sou gradually descended to its present poker-chip worthlessness of one-hundredth of an American cent...
...plot entangles the private and professional lives of seven women working at a place called Dreamland. Among them are Mickey, a gum-chewing spend-thrift running away from a sordid home, Yasumi, a loan shark who finally claws her way out of the business, and Yori, a weakling who despises prostitution but cannot stay away. Against a background of neon lights and haunting music, these women suffer, cheat, show flashes of compassion, and dream about escape. One who originally sold herself to support her son goes insane when the son renounces her. Another drives her tubercular husband to suicide...
...promised, soon convene a committee of educators, businessmen, labor leaders and professional men to make a new study of new "national objectives"-which presumably could be pursued by private as well as Government effort. The common denominator of cold-war defense and domestic growth: fiscal integrity. ''Thrift is one of the characteristics that has made this nation great. Why should we ignore...