Word: tougher
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...court's tougher line stems from the 1950 amendments to the Clayton Act, particularly to the broad and vaguely worded Section 7. It now prohibits a corporation from acquiring stock or assets of another "where in any line of commerce . . . the effect . . . may be substantially to lessen competition, or to tend to create a monopoly." In case after case, the trustbusters are applying Section 7 with success. It was the basis for the 1957 decision forcing Du Pont to sell its 23% of outstanding stock in General Motors; in the important 1962 Brown Shoe-Kinney case, the court used...
Main points of the court's rulings: > Major companies will find it tougher to initiate joint ventures. Last week's case in point involved the Penn-Olin Chemical Co., set up on a fifty-fifty basis by Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp. and Pennsalt Chemicals in 1960 to make sodium chlorate for use in the pulp and paper industry. A lower court had dismissed a complaint against the creation of the firm. But the Supreme Court said, in effect, that companies cannot enter joint ventures if there was a "reasonable probability" that either would have gone into the line...
...Real Opponent. This was tough talk, but no tougher than Scranton's attack on the Johnson Administration, which he accused not of having "bad policies," but of having "no policies." The Democrats, he said, "have put together a short-order foreign policy, serving each day's hash from the leavings of yesterday's mistakes." If given the nomination, he pledged, he would "strip away the sham promises, the heavy-handed politics-as-usual, the worn bag of political legerdemain which the Johnson Administration has substituted for a sense of national purpose. For the past six months...
...scarcely dry on Kennedy's bill when the city of Birmingham exploded in a tangle of firehoses, snarling police dogs and writhing Negroes. The violence was ugly, and so were the political implications. Soon afterward Kennedy announced that he was sending to Congress a much tougher version of his bill...
...tapping the charts with a pointer, Dr. Gattegno lets students discover with delight that strings of sounds make words, then whole sentences, including such swinging examples as "Pat met on a mat a man as fat as Tim." The decipherability of language thus established, the drill moves on to tougher orthography: weigh, height, eye, diaphragm, for example...