Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Labor slogan was "retrenchment." It would mean a halt to further expansion and perhaps a cutback in social services, wage freezing and other painful economic measures, all designed to strengthen British competitive power in the dollar market. What retrenchment really added up to was an attempt to inject a strong dose of competition and incentive into an increasingly security-minded Britain...
...taxes. Lots of us small fellows are becoming more & more alarmed about the increasing rate at which our Federal Government is spending our money. We have heard that almost all who come before you do so with hat in hand and tin cup held out . . . We come to strengthen the hand of those of you in both houses of the Congress who are concerned with the mounting cost of Government...
Goal? What was the ultimate goal of Allied decartelization policy? That was still up in the air. Britain wanted to nationalize the deconcentrated plants, while the U.S. wanted them to form a new basis for free competitive enterprise to strengthen the German economy. France was more interested in keeping Germany weak...
...family have entered into the controversy. On June 8 the Educational Policies Commission, in a report signed by President Conant, asked for the exclusion of Communist Party members from teaching. Because it also condemned irresponsible labeling of non-Communists as "Reds" and "Communists," the Commission thought its report would strengthen, not weaken, integrity on the campus...
...very vigor with which the Assembly opposes the administration when it feels its prerogatives threatened is evidence that a base for democracy exists in South Korea. Along with their colorful squabbles, legislative and executive branches are also capable of cooperating to strengthen that base. This week's dispute did not halt work on the new land reform law which by a shrewd double play may give South Korea a large, stable class of small farm owners, plus a business class that it now lacks. During Japan's rule almost all Korean industry and large areas of choice farmland...