Word: centralize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However ignominious was former Premier Nikolai Bulganin's performance in publicly confessing error at last month's Central Committee meeting in Moscow, it was not groveling enough to satisfy his sometime globetrotting pal, Nikita Khrushchev. Unprecedentedly, Moscow last week published a stenographic report of the December session at which Bulganin demeaned himself...
Dissension, Confusion. If the victors were united in revenge, they were divided in how to share the glory. The Directorio Revolucionario, a student group backed by onetime President Carlos Prio, which had its own band of guerrillas in the central Cuban mountains, worried that adulation for Castro might turn him into a swellhead dictator. The Directorio insisted on stockpiling guns for itself. Castro grew furious, ordered the students to turn over the arms. Outgunned, they complied...
Riesman said last night that as many sections as possible would be held in House seminar rooms or in classrooms in which discussion groups may sit around a central table. There will be about 20 students in each section. There will be no final exams, and grades will be based on a long paper...
Dean Bender replies, however, that any such increase would cause serious difficulties in Lamont, the I.A.B., classroom space, and other central facilities, even if the individual Houses are not crowded...
...hard-hit railroads were steaming back fast. Chesapeake & Ohio earned $51.7 million or $6.36 a share in 1958-the fourth best net in its 122-year history. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe earned $5,139,849 in November compared to $3,659,613 a year earlier, and New York Central made $2,633,054 in November against a loss of $1,894,625 a year earlier...