Word: worsens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent source of university concern has been the reduction in the return on investment, for the rate of interest has been declining over a long period. Harvard suffered no serious drop in its total return on investment last year, but there remains the danger that the recession may suddenly worsen and thus take a bigger chunk out of investment income. However, the University takes comfort in its continued conservative investment policy. Harvard's capital is much safer than that of schools whose need for higher returns has made them switch to more risky investments...
...Communist Boss Clemente Maglietta), the strikers quickly seized the post office, telephone exchange and radio station. The strike's purpose: to protest rising prices. Strikes for similarly popular causes (better schools, housing, recreational facilities) easily win the workers' support and serve at the same time to worsen the economic position, for which the Government is blamed...
...foreign policy more free of the influence of Germany and Russia. .Several of Foreign Minister Matsuoka's pro-Axis appointees, including Axis Stooge Toshio Shiratori, resigned from the Foreign Office. This freedom will be most useful in the case of Russia, since it will allow Japan to worsen relations against the time when she may attack eastern Siberia...
...speech to the nation, President Roosevelt pointedly avoided any reference to Japan. He upheld China's hand, yet did not deliberately worsen U.S.Japan relations. Secretary of State Cordell Hull pointedly denied that there had been any change in relations with Japan because of the Japanese seizure in French Indo-China of $10,000,000 worth of U.S. goods...