Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...terms established in 1954, pays to the Sicilian government a royalty of one-eighth of the gross production, plus corporate taxes (i.e., income tax and tax on the capital and on the extra profits). The combined and aggregate payment to the government of royalty and taxes brings about a fair and equitable profit sharing, which is practically equivalent to a fifty-fifty split of the profits...
Even before the Satevepost reached U.S. newsstands, Muggeridge's studiously fair discussion of royalty blew up outraged headlines (A SHOCKING ATTACK ON THE QUEEN) and out-of-context quotes in London's dailies. British ' readers responded in highly un-British fashion by bombarding Muggeridge with hostile letters that ranged from the scurrilous ("your effeminate voice") to the scatological (one letter, reported Henry Fairlie in the London weekly Spectator, had been "rubbed in either animal or human excrement...
Captain Lance Fair and sophomore Ron Simon followed with 282's. Another sophomore, John Phelps, rounded out the qualifiers with...
...York City private housing.* Effective next April, 1,787,000 nonrestricted apartments will be available to all tenants and buyers; landlords and owners who refuse to rent or sell to Negroes, Jews, Puerto Ricans or other minority groups will have to face complex "conciliation" hearings before a newly created Fair Housing Practices Panel, backed up by the threat of city-obtained court orders to enforce compliance with the law. Exempted: one-or two-family houses, unless they are part of a development of ten or more houses...
...decline in sales. A third expect their profits to be down in 1958, but one in five expects them to go up. Fully 55% foresee no change in their capital expenditures for next year. Summing up, N.A.M. Director and Carrier Corp. President William Bynum described 1958 business prospects as "fair, with scattered clouds and a chance of thunderstorms along two warm fronts-the taxation and labor fronts...