Word: controls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pork-barrel bill." Objected Ike in his veto message: the bill included 67 new projects not listed in his budget. These projects would add only $50 million to outlays in the current budget, but "their ultimate cost wall be more than $800 million. This illustrates how easily effective control of federal spending can be lost...
...taking over Laos' important northern provinces. Phongsaly, which borders directly on both China and North Viet Nam, was heavily penetrated. Samneua was now almost entirely surrounded by a 20-mile-wide ring of Communists, and at least a third of the province was under Red control...
...doubled tuition to $200, planned to use the money to attract sorely needed new teachers. But things do not work that way in the commonwealth of Massachusetts. Last week the state senate voted down Mather's house-approved pay-raise plan. And after five years of thoughtless state control, able President Mather resigned. "We cannot be sure our present faculty will remain," he snapped. "What is worse, we cannot possibly go out and recruit this fall because we have absolutely nothing to offer...
...boots under his shin guards to absorb the force of any errant fastball. Not only did Murph win all eight of his games of five innings each, but he struck out 108 to account for all but twelve outs, allowed only 18 hits. Although Murph has unusually sharp control for a ten-year-old (only eleven walks), he did skull one batter. "That kid throws too hard," cried one irate parent. "He scares these poor kids to death...
Last spring, when Publisher Samuel I. Newhouse went shopping for an anniversary gift for his wife Mitzi (TIME, April 6), he got more than he was looking for. In paying $5,000,000 for majority control of Conde Nast Publications Inc. (Vogue, House & Garden, Glamour and Bride's Magazine), Newhouse caught Conde Nast in the midst of negotiations to buy the U.S. publishing house, of Street & Smith. Last week Sam Newhouse, no man to duck opportunity, closed the inherited deal...