Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House has passed eleven regular appropriation bills totaling $32.8 billion, has snipped $1.8 billion out of the President's budget. But this does not include some $4 billion more of House-approved contract authorizations ($500 million more than the President requested), which permits obligations to be incurred against appropriations to be made later. The Senate has passed six of the House bills, has already restored $408 million of the House cuts...
...triphosphate (ATP). Their active portions are submicroscopic fibers made of a peculiar protein called actomyosin. When the protein is linked with ATP (to supply energy), it is like a coiled spring or a loaded gun. An electrical impulse from the nervous system can "fire the gun," making the fibers contract powerfully...
...divorce laws there was, in the bitter words of one justice, "no longer any divorce law in the U.S." In one wage-hour ruling-that workers must be paid for time spent getting ready to work and walking through the plant to their jobs ("regardless of contrary custom or contract")-they had opened a trap door under thousands of business firms. Congress had to rush to the rescue with legislation...
...Herald Tribune story touched off a three-pronged investigation of government contract practices by the Department of Defense, the War Assets Administration, and a Senate Committee...
...motion picture of almost classic proportions Groucho Marx once tried to get his brother Chico to sign a contract which contained a sanity clause. "Ha, you canta fools me," Chico argued, "there is no Sanity Clause...