Word: central
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right to seek revenge on John Marshall Butler, who had toppled him from the Senate in 1950. But Tydings was laid low by a serious attack of shingles, and had to withdraw from the race (TIME, Aug. 27). Gathered last week to select a new candidate, the Democratic State Central Committee turned aside a bid by Tydings' wife Eleanor, 52, and chose the man her husband had defeated in the primary-Pavement Contractor Mahoney...
...Euphemism. What Juin said was a stunning surprise. "I believe," he said, "the solution lies in a federative status that would leave Algeria largely free of central control and would include a man aging government adapted to the country's own personality." The parent country, he added, should "only intervene in matters relating to the general economy, foreign relations and internal security...
...total of 84 amendments in the original act have since given the Fed greater central authority and more power to regulate the money supply. For example, when the 1929 crash showed that the FRB had inadequate controls to restrain credit abuses, it was empowered to set margin rates for brokerage loans...
Delayed Treatment. For seriously injured individuals (noncritical injuries of the central nervous system, second-or third-degree burns of 25% to 40% of the body surface, closed fractures of major bones) whose recovery will not be set back by a delay in treatment-after initial emergency care...
Expectant Treatment. For those expected to die. In this category are men so badly injured (extensive injuries of the respiratory tract or central nervous system, penetrating wounds of the abdomen, multiple severe injuries, extensive burns) that only complicated and prolonged treatment might save them...