Word: cancelations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...binds screen hopefuls to the studio for seven years at a predetermined salary, often prevents them from reaping the customary rewards of stardom, e.g., sharing in "residual" rights from rerun TV shows. If the actors make personal appearances, Warners pockets 90% to 100% of their earnings. The studio may cancel the contract at will; the actor has no option to cancel or renew...
...Japan all set about complying with the spirit of the IMF and GATT meetings. Britain wiped out quotas on most U.S. goods. France pared some tariffs on U.S. imports, scrapped a batch of import quotas, promised to get rid of the rest within two years. Japan promised to cancel restrictions on a wide array of U.S. goods by early...
Japan announced that within 16 months it will cancel restrictions on a wide range of dollar imports, including bourbon (though the Japanese prefer Scotch), TV sets, household appliances, autos and cosmetics. Biggest item will be liberalization of such vital U.S. supplies as soybeans, scrap iron, hides and tallow, which should capture an even bigger share of the Japanese market, boost total U.S. sales to Japan by 5% ($40 million...
Shortly before Buttrick came to Cambridge, President Pusey asked a number of distinguished guest preachers for the Spring term to cancel their Sunday visits to memorial Church, so that Buttrick (called by Life magazine one of the nation's "ten greatest preachers") could deliver most of the sermons, and give the Services "Continuity...
...museum to his tastes, Ultra-modernist Sweeney had used flat white paint and light to cancel out a good many Wright concepts. Canvases were mounted unframed on rods projecting from the dazzling white wall. Bright, fluorescent lights were installed in the side skylights, canceling out Wright's sunlight but creating a brilliant background wall of light. As a result, the paintings seem to hover weightlessly in luminous space. "We are not trying to show nature effects in sunlight, but paintings," Sweeney stated. "This is the most spectacular museum interior architecturally in this country. But my job is to show...