Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...going back to his old paper-at his new price. The Chronicle's normally tight management not only agreed to match Caen's Hearst paycheck, now up to $38,000, but promised him a raise next year as well. Starting date: Jan. 15, when his present contract expires...
...classroom level, one innovation is the "contract correcting" study, in which persons such as housewives with good academic backgrounds correct themes at home, freeing the teacher for other work...
...Navy awarded a $62 million contract to the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. for developing the Polaris IRBM, a most promising solid-fuel missile that can be launched from submarines or ships...
...opera," urged that the institution be refurbished to keep up with changing times. This "shocking attack," as London's Sunday Express called it, prompted the BBC to schedule, then cancel, an appearance by Muggeridge, who is a TV favorite; threw some doubt on the renewal of his TV contract, and also led the Sunday Dispatch to cancel a weekly Muggeridge series that it had just announced...
...many countries, such as the U.S. and France, the growing practice of tying wage rates to the cost of living, either by government decree or union-employer contract, gives speed and added momentum to the wage-price spiral. Formerly there was a time lag before wages adjusted to prices, during which time the price rise might be reversed, making a wage rise unnecessary. Today the process is automatic. One country questioning the practice is Finland. There escalator wages are considered a major cause of the inflation that is so severe that the Finmark had to be devalued on Sept...