Word: allotment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, the government is pressing ahead with expansion programs. Under the newest five-year plan, approved in September, India will allot $22 billion in public money to increase production in "core" industries, including oil and fertilizers. Liberalization of import controls is bringing in raw materials for export industries and supplies of scarce commodities such as cotton and cooking oil. And, assuming her Congress Party wins the March elections-which it almost surely will-Mrs. Gandhi will have to deal with an unaccustomed problem of plenty: how to distribute surplus food before it rots in the fields...
...Once you allot news space in the Times according to the category of advertising that surrounds it, a distention sets in. In the new sections are a number of useful things, including good theater criticism (Walter Kerr), tart restaurant judgments (Mimi Sheraton) and personal health advice (Jane E. Brody). But assorted critics and writers who also appear Sundays turn up again during the week with nothing special to say, and their words do run on. Enough in the sections demands attention, however, and the poor old conscientious reader has more to get through...
Bunge suffered only a light penalty: the federal district court in New Orleans fined it $20,000. As part of an unusual plea-bargaining arrangement, Bunge agreed to allot $2 million to $3 million of its own money over a three-year period to hire more inspectors for its elevators, and pay for additional auditors, independent certified public accountants and an outside compliance consultant. U.S. Attorney Gerald J. Gallinghouse called the Bunge program one of "the most important steps that can be taken toward cleaning up the crime in the grain industry...
...Democrats voted not to allot any funds to the House Internal Security Committee, thus abolishing the committee. The Internal Security Committee was the direct descendant of the old House Un-American Activities Committee which was the leading force of red-baiting and repression during the intense Cold War period in the late 1940s and early '50s. It included among its victims the "Hollywood Ten," Charlie Chaplin, Paul Robeson, and numerous others of greater and lesser note whose only crimes were either to refuse to answer questions concerning their political affiliations, or to acknowledge past membership in the Communist Party, U.S.A...
...brilliant, all-stops-out use of big plastic umbrellas two years ago in Patience. The best new approach in the production, though, works extraordinarily well--it consists of an easel with a series of mathematical equations whimsically demonstrating the point of "See How the Fates Their Gifts Allot," perhaps the show's wittiest number. This was not the only bit of business that came off--the tableau effects during "The criminal cried" were excellent, and the ruffling and unruffling of large gold foil fans during "A More Humane Mikado" nearly stopped the show. And Katisha's new image...