Word: aiming
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...while turning down Murray's demands for a 12½?-an-hour wage hike, the board also took dead aim on the steelmakers. Their modernization program, when complete, should result in higher profits. If these profits were not passed along to the consumer "in the form of lower prices," said the board, then labor would be justified in trying again for higher wages...
Bevin & Cripps would argue that Britain's ultimate aim, like America's, was a competitive, freer-trading world outside what Bevin calls "the ruble area." But they would also defend Britain's present bilateral trade deals with other countries (e.g., Argentina) as an unavoidable expedient so long as the dollar shortage lasts. They would have a fairly shrewd notion of the American climate of opinion, of what they might ask and expect to receive...
Ostensibly, the strikes were to be for high wages; actually, the Communists' obvious aim was to force their way back into the government (from which a crushing electoral defeat had dislodged them in July 1948). But President Juho Paasikivi's Social Democratic government was ready for the Communist attack...
Counterfire. From the Post's editorial page last week, Wechsler took dead'aim at Carter's thicket and laid down his counterfire. Said Wechsler: "If he is saying that things are bad all over and that Southern prejudice has Northern parallels, we are disposed to agree . . . [But Carter] is really suggesting that we avert our eyes from the Southland because evil things also occur up North, just as the apologists for Soviet tyranny tell us we dare not attack their slave-system until we have ended oppression in Dixie...
...speak to them in simple, sincere, readily understandable terms. All I will try to do is to put before them a picture, in solid, simple lines like a woodcut, of the nature of the extreme tests to which Christianity has been subjected in Germany for so many years. My aim is to get our story across, not just to an intellectual...