Word: level
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...doctrine. That England is justified in her actions has nothing to do with the value of a system. Nor is she justified in shirking her responsibility as to maintaining justice. It is anything but a credit to England that her police should have to descend to the level of reprisals; as an administration of justice the method in itself marks it; failure...
...does not seem a satisfactory answer to his charges of profits as high as three and four hundred per cent, to say the cost of the sandwich has gone up two or three hundred per cent since 1914. The charge is made with full consideration of today's price level. The answer is beside the point. The restaurant owners, when asked what percentage they are making, reply that they do not know. A business man knows what his profits are when he so chooses. One owner replied this: "They are lower than they ever have been." This means nothing...
...would be unreasonable to ask that she stand aside, handicapped, and watch Germany make ingratiating bide for the trade markets which should be hers. Such a course would be willful suicide. Consequently Premier Delacroix is insisting forcibly that England wait until conditions in France reach their normal level before unbarring the gates to Germany. His demands are absolutely justified...
...loss, because the change in wages tends to lag behind the change of commodity rates. Hence the producer is forced to pay a higher wage than the lowered price of his commodity justifies. The only way to prevent this, is to keep prices up to the high level...
...least the peak has been reached and that for some time the price movement will be downward. For five years sellers have had their way. To grow rich all that was needed was for a merchant or manufacturer to stock up and wait for the market to reach a level agreable to him. Sellers having had a good time so long, it is only fair that buyers should now have a little opportunity to enjoy life...