Word: turn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...similarity is no accident; Pollack says that the plan was deliberately contrived to work within the existing private carriers. But some critics have charged that this plan really doesn't solve the distribution dilemma: it offers better service to America's insurance-buying suburbanites, but it seems to turn down the urban an rural who can never scrape together insurance premium payments...
Some members must have agreed with him, for only sixty of the two hundred fifty dues-payers showed up to elect a new slate and to find some reasons to keep going. As it turned out, there was only one candidate running for office. With usual Harvard finesse in parliamentary procedure ("We're voting on the amendment to the amendment . . . is there anyone who doesn't understand?"), it took just a half hour to elect Charles Schumer unanimously. Running without opposition, he was able to turn his campaign speech into an inaugural address...
Essence of Morality. Her second major diplomatic assignment was as the new state's first minister to Moscow, where she organized the legation on kibbutz lines, taking her turn at washing dishes. Recalled to be Minister of Labor in 1949, she began a crash program of building housing for immigrants and goldene wegen, as Israelis then called their new roads. In 1956 she was promoted to Foreign Minister, a post she held for a decade that was marked by at least one violent disagreement with Ben-Gurion over recognizing West Germany; she still refuses to ride in a German...
...other governors of the Federal Reserve manipulate the levers that control the nation's money supply and interest rates. Today, as a result of their actions, money is tight and costlier to borrow than at any time since the Civil War. To their distaste, bankers have to turn down customers seeking loans; businessmen have to put off some projects because credit is so expensive; brokers watch helplessly as investors shift out of stocks into high-yielding bonds; customers have to pay more in carrying charges for a house...
Alarm button will be installed on bells desks in the brick dormitories. They will ring in the resident's apartment and turn on a blue light over the outside doors to summon police. The lights were used until five or six years ago, Britton said, but were activated from the residents' apartments...