Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nonscientific visitor," said the Los Angeles Bureau's John Koffend, "is bound to get lost, even with a guide, in an atmosphere charged with pi-mesons, v-particles, tyrosinase and halogenated cyclobutane carboxylic acid. His interpreters, the scientists themselves, are willing, but communications are difficult...
...small slice of the tax economy carries 36% of the nation's income-tax burden (see chart). Some high-salaried executives, C.E.D. suggests, have lost incentive because "what is left after taxes is not worth the effort." The C.E.D. thinks that "high rates of taxes make it more difficult for the individual to accumulate funds for investment, thus penalizing small business, [which] ordinarily can make use of outside financing only at excessive cost . . . The objective of this type of reduction would be to stimulate investment in a desirable manner by a reduction of tax rates at income levels where...
...Russian press so bad? Answered Kommunist: "Most of the local papers use propaganda articles sent out by the press bureau in Moscow, and very few employ their own authors." Even when they do, the writers so closely ape Moscow that they write "like twins whom it is difficult to tell apart." The magazines are as bad as the newspapers. Most of them are "dull and featureless." Even the overriding concern of the Russian press with serving the party line fails, says Kommunist. "Propaganda articles are as a rule devoted to the past," and filled with official statistics and statements strung...
...fact, it is difficult not to by-pass tomorrow's contest, and look ahead to the final two crucial League games next week, against Brown on Wednesday and Yale Saturday. The Yale game will probably decide the League title, since the Elis now match the Crimson's 6-0 League record...
Architectural students made several photographs of every building to be included in the modern model, but pictures for the earlier scenes were more difficult to obtain. In many cases neither sketches nor blueprints could be found...