Word: equal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coolly downgraded the ineffectual, sacred-cow national oil monopoly, by inviting foreign oilmen to develop Argentina's petroleum resources. The first new well came in last week, beginning a program that eventually will save Argentina the $300 million it spends each year for foreign oil, a sum roughly equal to its whole trade deficit. Then Frondizi freed the artificially pegged peso to find its true value, discarded much red tape that distorted and paralyzed Argentina's foreign trade. A fortnight ago, to help shore up the peso and make the economy more productive, U.S. Government and private banks...
There is a simple way to weed out patients who are "allergic to everything": apply two patches with equal pressure, one patch containing suspected allergen and the other inert. If the reaction is the same, the patient has dermographia...
...English garden nearly 300 years ago and wondered why things move as they do, and why things fall. When a rocket engine shoots a jet of gas out of its tail cone, Newton's third law takes over: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Acting in the opposite direction to that of the racing gases, a mighty force lifts the rocket off its launching pad. As long as the engine fires, the rocket climbs faster and faster, obeying Newton's second law: An unbalanced force acting on a body makes it accelerate...
...spokesman for the Group 20 Players said last night he doubts that MEBAC intends to offer an "acceptable proposal" for sharing the theatre. "We feel that we should have equal time to use the site in the summer," he added...
...spokesman for the Players stressed that the group wants "equal time to use the Soldiers Field site, which is much better than Sanders Theatre or the Wellesley College Amphitheatre." The organization hopes to lease the arts center for the 1960 season and thereafter to share the theatre equally with...