Word: weltered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...welter of legal reforms pushed through by Charles de Gaulle when he took over France's destiny last year, two new laws set the press to trembling. One decreed imprisonment or fines for anyone publishing "by act, word or writing that which throws discredit on jurisdictional act or decision." The other authorized the same punishment for "whoever publishes before the intervention of the definitive jurisdictional decision comment tending to exercise pressures on the declarations of witnesses or on the decisions of judges...
...literary Christmas present of the 1958 holiday season. The proportion of pages read to books bought must be more lopsided than that of the Gideon Bible. And one of the biggest reasons for the disparity is reader fatigue; the busy man must choose between the book itself and the welter of commentary...
...Welter of Theory...
...this distinction is not a consistent one, or if it is, the author fails to maintain it as such. Far more often the decisions of 1933 and 1934 appear in the context of the welter of intriguing personalities who fought for them. Schlesinger is at his best in recreating these personalities; he is not at his best in presenting the economic thoughts which may have driven them...
...nation with mixed-capital enterprise. Which comes first-enterprise or the welfare state? An example is Pemex, Mexico's government oil company. Subsidized Pemex proudly proclaims itself "in the service of the nation," fulfills the proclamation by keeping prices of its products artificially low and supporting a welter of government social services. As a result, it makes little profit to plow back into development and into the establishment of a much-needed petrochemical industry...