Word: approx
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although junior faculty members with young children would share the approx- imate one-fifth of the benefits devoted to family medical and insurance proposals, they would still have many more financial problems than older men in the senior faculty, critics stated...
Congress Party leaders dutifully took these proposals home, blandly proposed the merging of Bengal and Bihar (total pop. 65 million), the merging of Bombay state with huge slices of Madhya Pradesh and Hyderabad (approx. pop. 43 million), the merging of Madras with Mysore and Travancore-Cochin (approx. pop. 55 million). Gasped the opposition parties: a plot to hold power through creating a group of superstates...
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...farms. The government wants to guarantee the peasant's crop and his property. The list of kulaks has to be abolished. The movement into cooperatives has to be slowed down. Those members who desire to become individual farmers again can do so ... Fines amounting to 600 million forints [approx. $50 million] were imposed on peasants [for delivery failure]. This we cancel...
...light (approx. 7,000 lbs.), transonic plane, built by Northrop Aircraft, Inc. Fitted with two turbojets giving a total of 3,200 lbs. thrust, this sweptwing, almost tailless plane was designed for the study of control problems at altitudes up to 10,000 ft. Its stubby (26 ft. 10 in.) wings are equipped with elevens, i.e., combined ailerons and elevators...