Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harry Byrd was much too shrewd to jump out front with objections to the Gray Plan. Before it or any harsher program could be put into effect, a change was required in one section of the Virginia constitution that prohibited the "appropriation of public funds" for "any school or institution of learning not owned or exclusively controlled by the state." On the pretext of support for the Gray Plan with its fatal flaw, the Byrd organization fought hard for a constitutional amendment. Leading the way was Attorney General Lindsay Almond, a stem-winding stump orator, who thundered at Appomattox that...
When Mike Todd, Liz Taylor's third husband, was killed in a plane crash last May, Debbie and Eddie were on hand to help console her. The Todds and the Fishers had been good friends (although in retrospect last week, Debbie made a fine point to the effect that perhaps they had not really been "good friends" but only "just friends"). When Eddie and Liz were in New York two weeks ago, consolation continued in nightclubs and during a weekend at Grossinger's. After Liz and Eddie finally returned to the coast, there followed a barrage of press...
...Italian villa opulently rising from its verdant grounds is enough to stir the most prosaic of imaginations. The English poets eulogized the effect a long time ago and the sensation has not worn thin. But at Settignano, a few miles from the riches of Florence, there is to be found a villa of very special spiritual proportions. It is I Tatti, the home of Bernard Berenson...
...suffer under the NSA regime. Once the "founder" of a new concession has graduated from the University, his profit-making idea becomes the property of the Employment Office. Techniques could become stultified, and originality driven out. Continuous repetition "can be insidious," Burke states, and standardized practices could, in effect, destroy potential profits. There should be some provision to discontinue outdated agencies...
RAIL-FARE BOOSTS of 15% for first class and 5% for coach are planned by Pennsylvania and New York Central lines on Nov. 1, when automatic 7? hourly wage increases take effect. If ICC approves, this would be third general fare raise in less than two years...