Word: vital
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When the U.S. economy drifts into uncertain waters, labor and management often discover that they share the same boat, find they have much in common. Increasing efficiency to enhance an industry's long-run competitive prospects emerges as a vital mutual interest. Last week representatives of labor and management in three major U.S. industries agreed on some significant innovations...
...will draw Japan into a war with the Communist powers and the desire for peace is very strong in everybody. Therefore, the change of the American policy from disarming Japan (like Germany) to rearming it (like Germany) has produced some bitterness, especially because the status of disarmament was a vital part of the constitution given to Japan by MacArthur. But beyond this the geographical situation of Japan, which makes it an outpost of the Asiatic continent, awakens the desire of this ninety-million nation to change their function and to become politically independent. This is probably naive in view...
...Gogh, whose resemblance to his uncle is extraordinary--sans white hair, he could double as the Vincent of the Parisian period--also has the warmth and kindness that his father possessed to so great an extent. He is a direct link to major figures in a vital period of the history...
...notable decision: last year the court voted 5-to-2 that, in effect, Michigan employers may be taxed to pay unemployment compensation to Michigan workers who are thrown out of work when strikes shut down vital parts plants in other states. Management complained that the ruling would oblige an employer to finance a strike against himself. Author of the majority opinion: Associate Justice George Edwards, 46, onetime (1938-39) U.A.W. director of welfare. * Despite their party's low ebb at home, a remarkable number of Michigan Republicans have been appointed to top jobs in the Eisenhower Administration. Among them...
...Paris a coolly hostile National Assembly met to hear De Gaulle's ministers explain his project to create an independent $1.2 billion French nuclear force. To complaints that the plan was too dear, too meager and, above all, too disruptive of vital European defense unity, Premier Michel Debre replied plaintively: "France is not going toward isolationism, toward neutralism." But since De Gaulle's constitution empowers him to dissolve the Assembly and call new elections if his wish is not granted, the bill was likely to pass...