Word: empting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mintz noted that the bill leading to the planning of an art center provided for $5 million to be spent on "recreation," and he raised the question, "Is an art center recreation?" He also pointed out that the lease, which would pre-empt the long-established Met Harness Track, does not delineate the exact site of the proposed theatre, leaving a possible means to open further discussion of MeBAC...
...plus interest, Cinemactor Ernest (Marty) Borgnine went on record to say that sudden success in the movies is not necessarily followed by sudden riches in real life. On Borgnine's last movie, the holders of his contract (Hecht-Lancaster) allegedly exercised their contractual right to pre-empt his services, then lent him out to do the same movie he was negotiating for. His contract-holders got "at least $75,000." Borgnine got $15,000. The movie: The Best Things in Life Are Free...
Italian and Greek relatives of U.S. residents are filling up the quotas from those countries -because Congress permitted the relatives of constituents to pre-empt the refugee quotas. But no action has yet been taken on the amendments proposed by President Eisenhower to liberalize...
...mansion at Fort McNair. When the new Joint Chiefs were appointed last May, Collins saw trouble ahead. If Admiral Arthur Radford, new boss of the JCS. followed Bradley's precedent and moved into Quarters I, Collins reasoned, then General Matthew Ridgway, Collins' own successor, would probably pre-empt the house at Fort McNair, and Collins would be househunting again...
...educators went before the FCC, they were not yet ready to say just how they would run or finance their TV channels if they got them. All they were after right now, in General Taylor's words: to "see to it that commercial television does not pre-empt all the television channels and thus 'freeze out' the educators...