Word: granted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most controversial figure of all is the doorman, usually an impressively mustached oldster who expects at least 2 rubles (20?) for opening the door, and is in a position to grant favors, for when the restaurant is full he locks the door and reopens it only as the spirit moves him. Literature and Life suggested abolishing doormen...
North by Northwest. Director Hitchcock's compass points both to Gorky Street and Madison Avenue, with a smooth adman (Gary Grant) accidentally and entertainingly caught in the grasp of a sly spy (James Mason) and his secret weapon (Eva Marie Saint...
...better system of regulating disputes than now exists is needed. The injunction mechanism now provided becomes only a lever for management, and is the last weapon in the government's arsenal. And in this strike where such huge forces are involved, the eighty-day return to work may grant only a momentary respite...
...implication, he was blamed for the colossal meat mess this year that has left Poland, once a substantial food exporter, hardly able to feed itself. To make matters worse, inflation is a major threat, largely because of higher bonuses and wages that factory chiefs have been allowed to grant on their own initiative. Bungling Warsaw planners pegged meat prices so low that workers, with extra money to spend, ate more and more. At the same time, farmers' profit margins on livestock were reduced to the point where incentive to raise animals was almost destroyed. In 1959's second...
North by Northwest. Director Hitchcock's compass points both to Gorky Street and Madison Avenue, with a smooth adman (Gary Grant) accidentally and entertainingly caught in the grasp of a sly spy (James Mason) and his secret weapon (Eva Marie Saint...