Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Government policies in the countries of Asia and Africa vary a great deal," Masani said, "but they inevitably reflect fear of losing their newly won independence and impatience to cease being among the world's forgotten peoples. Sometimes these policies are marked by a certain amount of doctrinaire thinking and preconceptions that are a hangover of a period when power and responsibility were denied to the sons of the soil. Insofar as foreign investment is concerned, the door is open, but it is true that no one waits at the door with open arms...
...state university or college instead−and let Mr. Taxpayer pay the bill. So [he] is going to get stuck anyway. He can take his choice whether voluntarily to direct part of his funds to private institutions or let the state tax away an even larger amount for expansion of state institutions...
...blocked in the U.S., Great Britain and Switzerland since Suez, and would probably force stockholders to pay French taxes of up to 65% on liquidation proceeds. As matters stand, the company has an estimated $280 million in hand to devote to its projects, but with almost three times that amount tied up outside France, the success of its new role depends very much on whether it can retrieve the value of its frozen and nationalized assets...
Stripped of its complex algebraic formulas, Parkinson's Law is this: the staff of any administrative department increases annually by 5%-6% "irrespective of any variation in the amount of work (if any) to be done." Not one to proclaim dogma without data, Author Parkinson presents the strange case of the British Admiralty. Between 1914 and 1928, the capital ships of the British navy declined from 62 to 20, the officers and men of the fleet dropped from 146,000 to 100,000, yet Admiralty officials increased nearly 80% from 2,000 to 3,569. So absolute...
Munro predicted that the amount loaned by the University would reach an alltime high this year, and estimated that students would borrow over a quarter of a million dollars. This is part of a rapid growth in the demand for loans since 1949, when they totaled...