Word: setbacks
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...fears of a recession, G.E.'s Chairman Philip Reed declared that whatever temporary setback might come, the economy is "in a long-term upward trend." If consumers begin spending as big a percentage of their income as they did in 1929 or even 1939, said Reed, the annual demand for consumer products alone would increase by $7 billion a year. Evidence that they would continue to spend was provided by a Federal Reserve Board survey. The FRB reported that consumers are not only saving more money but "are in more of a buying mood than at [any] time...
...prestige and Syngman Rhee's boasts of marching to the Yalu, the east front setback was a severe blow. Just how seriously it affects U.N. defenses for an armistice is another matter, obscured in military censorship...
Technically it was a victory for De Gasperi, but psychologically it was a discomfiting setback. After five years of economic gains and political stability under De Gasperi, Italians had the opportunity to vote for democrats or totalitarians of left or right. Democracy got only 49.8% of the votes...
...meeting of the chemistry faculty, Albert lost his head. When somebody questioned a point in a paper he was reading, he called the man "daft," and went on blustering long after he was proved wrong. The fellowship he was seeking went to another man. Albert blamed the setback on treachery, and concluded that Dibdin didn't "know one end of a molecule from the other...
...family communities, loyal to their family interests. Hence Stalin's effort in 1949 to amalgamate the villages into large, well-policed agricultural towns, called agrogoroda. The attempt was quietly abandoned. Russia needs more & more bread for her expanding industrial cities. To the end. Stalin dared not risk another setback like that...