Word: verdict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...International Monetary Fund. "The most important economic question facing the U.S.," says Dillon, onetime Wall Street investment banker who served four years (1953-57) as Ambassador to France, "is whether the less developed countries will choose the Communist system or the Western system in their struggle against poverty. The verdict will depend largely on how much the industrialized countries of the West do to help the less developed countries achieve an adequate rate of economic growth...
...unreformed smoker, Cried Milne: "I would take issue with any doctor who used such a term as 'excessive' in a death certificate. [That] is to judge the habits of one's fellow men. That must be the province of the coroner." Coroner Milne's verdict: death from natural causes...
...their charges as soon as they heard the court order a blood test. Medical science eventually will make the test far more discriminating. Dr. Barnes believes. When tests for these factors are simplified so that they can be done in any pathology laboratory, the chances for a scientifically proved verdict in paternity cases should be increased...
That evening Rockefeller sat with his brothers in Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel, watched the public's verdict roll up a smashing 450,000-plus victory. Rockefeller captured upstate Buffalo by 5,500 votes where Harriman had won by 10,600 in 1954, carried Schenectady County by a bigger margin than Tom Dewey in 1950, increased G.O.P. margins in suburban Westchester and Nassau Counties, held Harriman below 60% of the vote in New York City by scoring heavily with liberals, independents, minority groups. Rockefeller carried in with him the Republican state ticket, led by upstate Congressman Kenneth Keating, elected...
...real world. Elder's plan would clear the lines for active, purposeful graduate work. It would make the Ph.D. a "more residential degree to be won by workmanlike methods within a reasonably definite time." Graduate study should be preparation, not vocation. Hopefully there will be another vote, and another verdict...