Word: refrains
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...Ford Motor Co. for certain financing practices had been ended by consent decrees. In these decrees Ford and Chrysler not only agreed to refrain from coercing dealers to finance car sales through finance companies affiliated with Ford and Chrysler-they also agreed to stop advertising their affiliated finance companies exclusively. This gave Thurman Arnold his cue. Said he: "Monopoly is fostered when advertising is used to put competitors at a disadvantage for the sole reason that they do not have resources sufficient to expend equally large sums in advertising. . . . In the automobile financing field vast sums are spent by manufacturers...
...request that all hunters shall refrain from hunting within rifle range of any work project . . . and that . . . you authorize such regulations as may be necessary...
...love song in which a Thessalian girl has restored to magic incantations in hope that she may bring back here truant lover Daphnis. As she chants, she repeats again and again, "Ducite ab urbe domum, mea carmina, ducite Daphnim." (Draw from the city, my songs, draw Daphne home"). This refrain is very effectively entoned by three trumpets behind the scenes...
...clean up the fly-by-night employment agencies. In addition, he hopes to remove the bad spots from the civil service and to provide reasonable old-age compensation. These intentions do not paint an administrator vibrant with reform zeal, but they do show one who will refrain from reckless promises and more reckless practices...
...President Green was noticeably less militant than at the start of the convention. Invited to walk through A.F. of L.'s "open door" were C.I.O. textile, automobile, garment and oil unions. Cried Bill Green to them: "The key has been thrown away and we are singing that happy refrain, 'Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home...