Word: bases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Volume is a major reason for the low cost of mobile homes, which constitute the only truly industrialized housing available on a large scale in the U.S. today. Skyline's nonunionized workers commonly earn up to $12,000 a year because base pay is increased by an incentive system that keeps the men on the run along the production lines...
...maintenance. The Delacorte Theater, completed with the aid of $150,000 from the philanthropist, is the site of New York's annual free Shakespeare festival. Another Delacorte gift, the Central Park Zoo's animated clock, is designed in the form of an animal carrousel. As its base revolves to glockenspiel music, the clock chimes one of 32 nursery rhymes on the quarter-hour and sends a comical beast dancing every half hour...
...production, and 49% of an exploration company. Unlike Kennecott, Anaconda depends on Chile for most (61%) of its production and half of its earnings. The company reports that its profits from Chile totaled $99 million last year, about a 17% return on its investment; the Chilean government, using different base figures, calculates that Anaconda earns...
When Nixon and Thieu met in the modest house of the U.S. base commander at Midway, Nixon moved quickly to the troop question. "We have claimed for years that we were getting stronger," Thieu replied. "If it is so, we have to be willing to see some Americans leave." Thieu agreed that the announcement might help the Paris negotiations. Said Nixon: "We do not want to break the umbilical cord to your people." The troop replacement would not, said Thieu...
...over to the opposite side of the spinal cord for its journey toward the brain. Along the way it triggers an automatic reflex that causes the man to flinch and tighten his gluteal muscle. After the impulse reaches the thalamus, a major (and evolutionally ancient) junction box at the base of the brain, where it is perceived as pain, it proceeds to the cortex. Only in this, the newest and most advanced part of the brain, is the entire painful sensation fully processed and interpreted...