Word: generously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government half of all the profits, then give half of what remained to the National Iranian Oil Co. as its partner. The 75-25 profits split was so onesided against ENI that even some in the Iranian government suspected ENI's motive was publicity, to make Italy seem generous in demanding only a 60-40 split for concessions in her country. For some time Italy and Iran both have been trying to boost the 50-50 split that is standard in the Middle East...
...reassuring in view of the continuing decline of network radio programing and the high mortality rate of long-run good-music shows, e.g., The Voice of Firestone. To its everlasting credit-and to the extra delight of opera listeners-Sponsor Texaco has been as tasteful as it has been generous. In the three to five hours of air time it buys every Saturday, 20 weeks a year, there is not a single commercial. In spots totaling less than one minute. Texaco is politely identified as sponsor. The company is rewarded with some 10.000 letters a year ("My dear Texas Company...
Swearing on the Koran. He began by sending off his court minister with letters telling his allies, Nasser, Saud and the Syrian President, what he meant to do. (Saud's generous reply: "You will always find me on your side in person and with my forces.") The Jordanian Cabinet's taunting response was to propose establishing diplomatic relations with Soviet Russia. For the young King, the moment had come. First summoning 50 top army officers to the palace and exacting loyalty pledges, he demanded the Cabinet's resignation. Nabulsi, a left-wing and anti-Western economist (educated...
...told undergraduates of Melbourne University: "I am still begging my friends in the U.S.-because it is a great country, a marvelous country, a generous country, but not always as understanding in these matters as one would like-to understand that it is not a foreign policy to say we will take this to the United Nations. Every great power must get to understand that if it goes to the United Nations it must go with its own ideas hammered out . . . that means that you determine, though you may not announce, your own policy before you take it into this...
...church seemed to get strong backing last week from Pope Pius XII. In a speech that sounded like an endorsement of Spain's liberal, fast-increasing Opus Dei organization (TIME. March 18), the Pope urged a group of newly ordained Spanish priests to foster a "higher grade of generous catholicity" and to incorporate the church "more and more resolutely in those currents of mutual cooperation in which many persons today see the future and salvation of the world." He reminded them that Spain, "although placed in a corner of this old Europe, is conscious that today already the trumpets...