Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took political courage for Kubitschek to make the switch. Alkmim's policy of holding coffee off the market to exact higher prices succeeded mostly in giving the market to other coffee-producing countries, but it had great chauvinistic appeal to the powerful leftist nationalists. Lopes, 47, believes that heavy investment of foreign private capital is needed to boost per capita income. At the present rate of production growth, he says, "it would take slightly more than 20 years to reach the $400 per capita income level...
...mating with persons classified as Negro is one-twentieth of what would be expected if mating were random." In a population with 90% white and 10% Negro, for example, the probability of mixed matings works out at 9 per 1,000. Dr. Stuckert admits that this figure cannot be exact, but he says it agrees with many sociological studies. His other figures (e.g., immigration and natural increase of Negroes and whites) are much firmer...
...production, limitation of conventional arms. "I would anticipate that any agreement to suspend testing, if made, would not be an isolated agreement, but be a part of other arrangements . . . All suspension of testing means is that the arsenal of nuclear weapons that you have is accumulating without any exact knowledge as to what the consequences of their use would...
...apprenticeship as secretary in a Fifth Avenue beauty shop. Today she grosses an estimated $15 million yearly, owns a topflight racing stable (Maine Chance). The carefully preserved beauty queens are the best ads for their own products: Rubinstein is in her 80s, Arden in her 70s-and their exact ages are as jealously guarded as their cosmetic secrets. Says an aide: "We never talk to Miss Arden about the passage of time...
...turn at the retorts. On the average, a product takes from a year and a half to two years from conception to store shelves. Bringing out a simple item like a new lipstick costs from $200,000 to $400,000 for such necessities as experimenting to get the exact color, market testing, replacing old advertising and color cards...