Word: confrontations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hold-down on production costs. Round-after round of wage boosts followed by price boosts has brought not only price upcreep at home but also loss of export markets abroad. Western Europe's rebuilt industrial plants, more modern on the average than the U.S.'s, confront U.S. industry with increasingly rugged competition. In late 1958, the U.S., for the first time since the igth century, became a net importer of steel instead of a net exporter...
...world of analytic couches. "It is my reason that laughs at my faith," wrote Spain's top Philosopher Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936). "And it is here that I must betake me to my Lord Don Quixote in order that I may learn of him how to confront ridicule and overcome it." Don Quixote overcame it by letting the world overcome him. "The divine tragedy is the tragedy of the Cross," said Unamuno. "The human tragedy is the tragedy of Don Quixote...
Brown's hopes for the Ivy title ended with this defeat. The only team with a shot left at the Crimson is the Yale eleven, which gave up the League lead by bowing to Princeton, 1 to 0. The Elis confront the varsity Friday in the championship showdown. The Ivy crown, an NCAA bid and the honor of victory in the traditional series will ride on the outcome...
...Threat with Threat." Looking over the ranch house's sleek, gadget-stocked kitchen, Khrushchev showed, as he did dozens of times at the exhibition, the braggy defensiveness that seems to come over Soviet officials when they confront the U.S. standard of living...
...Defense Department's Industrial Personnel Security Board to act on the basis of confidential information. In a strong 8-1 decision, the court ducked the constitutional issue but held that neither Congress nor the President had ever authorized a program that denied a suspect the opportunity to confront and cross-examine his accusers...