Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...methodical Swiss, who think that there is a place for everything, staunchly believe that the place for industry is in cartels. Over the years, no Swiss business has been more tightly cartelized than the watch industry, whose three basic cartels 1) fix prices for export, 2) require makers and assemblers to buy their parts at fixed rates, and 3) prescribe minimum profit margins for members of 25%. A special policing committee checks on firms that duck the complex rules and regulations, slaps fines of up to $25,000 on violators...
...medical lesson of My Left Foot is that even a young adult can be saved from the worst horrors of cerebral palsy. As for Christy Brown, he has use of the royalties to fix up his study, and now has an electric typewriter, which even his jumpy fingers can operate. Now he can keep the shoe on his left foot...
...Faculty voted yesterday to abolish the existing quota of concentrators in History and Literature. In the future, the Committees on History and Literature and on Educational Policy will fix an annual quota and they have set 85 as the limit for the class...
...shoot her husband, but his nerve failed. Instead, while she locked up the family dog, he ambushed Smith in the garage and tried to beat him to death with a bottle. When Smith recovered, Wolf decided to use dynamite. Last week he went to the Smith home, supposedly to fix up a backyard swing and playground as a birthday present for Susan Smith, who was turning three. Wolf brought ten sticks of blasting dynamite and put them under the front seat of Smith's Buick, with wires hidden under the floor mat but not attached to the ignition...
...Judge must now fix a date for trial, and his decision is expected within a week. The trial will probably begin in September...