Word: weak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weak to win but strong enough to be a bother were the revolutionary extremists: the Communists, who lost more than they gained from the election-campaign support of the Red army (and who campaigned on the slogan, "It's time for a change"), and the Union of Independents, a neo-Nazi party which won 12% of the popular vote in the last (1949) elections. The Independents talked a lot about capturing enough seats to give them a balance of power...
...stocks. By making it easier to buy, FRB hoped to steady the market, which has gone down more often than up in the last two weeks, and encourage nervous businessmen who still think that the market is an accurate barometer of business conditions. Last week Government bonds were also weak. Long-term (20year) issues sold below 95 for the first time since issuance, bringing their yield up to 2.8%. Reason for the drop: investors think that the Treasury, in its effort to lengthen debt maturities (TIME, Feb. 9), will boost rates on new long-term issues to 3% and more...
...thing, such a requirement would willy-nilly herd students into a course many of them would not like. Far from being an antidote, this sort of compulsion only makes indifference more resolute, evasion more determined. In addition, weak enthusiasms, which presumably the Faculty wishes to strengthen, have a way o dying under such paternal rigor. Only those interested at the start would be sure to apply themselves enough to learn anything permanently and they would probably take the courses anyway. The Faculty has braved this facet of haman nature but once within my memory, in setting up General Education. Surely...
Charlie Ufford was eliminated in the second round of individual play by four-time national champion Charlie Brinton. Ufford rallied after a weak start, but eventually lost to Philadelphia's Brinton 15-11, 15-11, 6-15, 11-15, 15-11. Ufford gained the second round after drawing a bye in the first...
...cues." Detmold's Red newspaper, Volks-Echo, lambasted the cast and said with a snarl: "Its resistance broke down easily before the propaganda offerings of the Fascist warmongers." Even in taking out Red insurance policies, the actors found themselves refused. The reason given by the insurance company: weak hearts...