Word: coste
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...reached Capitol Hill than House Ways & Means Committee Democrats came up with a far more lavish plan. The committee approved (16-9) a bill providing a flat 16 extra weeks' compensation (TIME, April 28), airily ruling out repayment by the states. The Democrats boosted the bill's cost about three-quarters of a billion dollars by the 16-week ruling and by specifying coverage for 900,000 seasonal laborers, fishermen, government employees and others, who cannot now qualify for state compensation payments. The Democratic version won House Speaker Sam Rayburn's approval. And it headed...
...decision: Hammarskjold had intervened in council debate only twice before-once during the Suez crisis, again when the Russians smashed the Hungarian rebellion. Hammarskjold could recall the fate of Trygve Lie, whose intervention on behalf of the U.N. in Korea had won Lie the hostility of the Russians and cost him the Secretary-General's post. But, at 52, Hammarskjold had just been re-elected to a five-year term, and for weeks he had been brooding about the disheartening deadlock over disarmament...
Intimate & Intemperate. Cost of moderate fluency: $300 to $500 for 60 to 100 hours of private instruction. The vocabulary taught is selected for the frequency with which words are used in conversation rather than in literature, which is the basis for most college word lists. Part of the course: a lesson in intimate and intemperate uses of language. Berlitz reasons that even a gentlemanly student ought to know that to call a Chinese a tortoise, for instance, is grounds for water torture...
Rain has already cost the varsity two probable league wins--over Princeton last Saturday and Dartmouth yesterday--and two more cancellations would be very exasperating. If this weekend's matches are not played, the Crimson will have little chance of winning the league title, especially since it will not have much practice before the Yale match Wednesday...
Purchase price of the property, located near Radcliffe, and construction costs for the mosque will be jointly paid for by Aga Khan IV '58 and Sadruddin Aga Khan '54. While the actual cost of construction was not disclosed, Khan estimated that the final figure would be somewhere between...