Word: allotted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...budget message on Wednesday, Furcolo estimated that the proposed tax would enable him to allot $75 million to the cities and towns of the state to be used in reducing local tax rates, especially the property...
Author Kaneko has found a pleasant minor subject and has had the good sense to allot it only the significance it deserves. As far as the people of Japan are concerned, Manjiro was indeed The Man Who Discovered America...
Some companies allot to research a fixed proportion of sales (from less than 1% for transportation companies to more than 6% for big electrical and chemical manufacturers), give research directors a free rein in pursuing likely leads. Esso Research measures each venture by its "probability ratio," i.e., the value of the potential product, multiplied by the probability of successful research, divided by the cost of the work...
Nevertheless, say many scientists and industrial leaders, U.S. business is not investing enough for the basic research that nourishes all invention. These critics argue that industry should allot at least 10% of its research outlay for fundamental studies v. the 5% average. The U.S. Government, which underwrites 60% of the national research effort, also tends to emphasize practical rather than theoretical value. At least 93% of Government research money placed with industry goes for specific projects; $4 of every $5 in Government research grants to universities also specify applied research. Says Whirlpool-Seeger President Elisha Gray II: "The paucity...
...Pineau suggested that the U.S. allot 6% of its foreign aid through the United Nations to avoid any East-West competition; Dulles thought this unrealistic...