Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interpretation have been standardized, as well as some technical equipment, such as naval couplings, which will permit ships of all Western Union navies to refuel one another at sea. The metric linear measure system has been accepted by Western Union artillery, but centigrade has not yet triumphed over Fahrenheit. Basic manuals for all Western Union forces will be published. The five sovereign nations have not, however, exchanged their secret codes...
...main props of Juan Perón's popularity has been his policy of holding retail food prices at artificially low levels. Last week the prop was unceremoniously yanked away. Argentines awoke to find the costs of basic foodstuffs up as much as 100% overnight...
...aware that the school's policy of refusing to compromise its high standards has some drawbacks. The cost of operation is high, entrance examinations extremely stiff, the student body relatively small. But Fagundes also knows that, in any case, Kilometer 47 can not do the job alone. A basic problem for the government is to reverse the drift of the population toward the industrial coast. And even when the hinterlands are manned and producing, new transportation systems must be built to get the produce to market...
...famed pianist and composer, Ferruccio Busoni, with whom Weill next studied, gave him some basic advice that he has followed ever since: "Don't be afraid of banality. After all, there are only twelve tones in the scale...
...onetime cowboy, who left school after the sixth grade, Keener picked up his basic engineering in survey work for the Colorado Power Co., in 1934 founded his own company. From one employee, it grew during World War II, when Keener built ammunition plants, to 800 men, has netted Keener a tidy personal fortune...