Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spending authority for Army procurement and production might be cut by $516 million-but it would be a bookkeeping switch, with the entire $516 million added to "the large amount that will have to be authorized for Army procurement and production in fiscal year...
...Congress still seemed more interested in the political possibilities of budget-cutting. No sooner had he received the President's letter than Speaker Sam Rayburn renewed his talk about tax cuts. A top Democrat reacted to the message with a sneer: "It don't amount to a sneeze in a cyclone...
...been more than a trace in the sea water, or the careful tests made in the Marshalls just after the explosion would have detected it. But clams are apparently better chemists than men are; they went after the cobalt 60 for reasons of their own and collected an astonishing amount of the radioacitve isotope...
Weiss and Shipman did not intend to scare anyone with the investigation, but their work has revealed an unsuspected "biological mechanism" that acts selectively on a single radioactive isotope, raising its concentration from an undetectable amount to the vicinity, at least, of the danger level. Biologists cannot be sure that other living organisms, both animals and plants, do not concentrate other radioactive isotopes in places where they may damage...
...would retain the present system; a need must first be demonstrated for final grades. There appears, to the debunkers, to be no purpose for awarding end-term grades like gold stars for effort. What does the mark indicate? There is little evidence that it denotes more than the amount of time a student is willing to spend on his courses, and since he already knows how conscientiously he worked, there is no need to tell...