Word: assessment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vote. By judiciously mixing "yeas," "nays" and "abstains," a party leader can calculate just what degree of approval to render a policy, how to rebuke a Premier with an insultingly small majority, how to bring him down without taking the blame. If the leader needs more time to assess the situation, he simply drops in duplicate ballots for several Deputies, which forces a recount. Before every important vote, the Assembly adjourns so that each party can decide on the "dosage," at which the Radicals are the admitted masters...
...against Blair Fraser, Ottawa editor of Maclean's magazine, who had written an article on backroom political shenanigans in B.C. Under the cloak of privilege, Editor Fraser had stubbornly refused to name his sources. Now, unless he changes his mind, the court will have little to do except assess the damages. Cried Vancouver's Province: The ruling amounts to "tearing away all the reporter's protection . . . Reporters henceforth will not be admitted behind the scenes...
Auto Supply Down. Behind the new housing surge lay plentiful mortgage money, plenty of money in the bank (savings last month hit a new high of $25.5 billion), and that vital factor that no economist can assess, the willingness to buy. In the first half of 1954, said the Commerce Department, spending for personal consumption hit a new peak annual rate of $233 billion. The outlook for the rest of the construction industry also seemed bright. The Associated General Contractors of America polled its members (80% of the industry) and noted that building outlays of all types this year should...
...conferred with British security men. Presumably neither had told him the names of any of their agents in West or East Germany, but undoubtedly he had picked up a good bit of information about their techniques and knowledge. London rushed two top agents to West Berlin to assess the damage, and canceled its code for communicating with West Germany. Soon reports arrived from the Red zone of a wave of arrests of Western secret agents. "Everything and everyone is compromised," a West German intelligence officer cried. "We must start again at the bottom...
...this unhappy juncture, the Russians sent Soviet Ambassador Sergei Vinogradov on a quiet trip back to Paris-officially to arrange for the visit of a Russian ballet company. Bidault suspected that his real mission was to assess the possibilities of a Cabinet revolt which would sweep stubborn, gallant little Georges Bidault and time-serving old Premier Lan-iel out of office...