Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stock ownership is being systematically spread. Recently, nearly 1,000,000 individual Germans earning under $3,800 a year signed up for shares in a public sale of the state-owned Preussag mining and oil company. The government expects to sell more "People's Shares'" in a half dozen other major firms it owns, including Volkswagen. In private industry, more than 30% of the employees of the big DEMAG engineering firm own stock in their company...
...start it looked as if Houphouet had been overtaken by history. But behind the scenes he worked agilely to undermine the Mali, freely predicted that the federation would collapse. He is already half right. Fearing to antagonize the Ivory Coast, which hires its workers and is its access to the sea, Upper Volta last winter decided to pull out of Mali. So did Dahomey. Now Houphouet and the leaders of Mali share a common concern over Sekou Toure's ominous flirtation with the Soviet Union and its satellites...
Dramatic by itself, the fall in fatalities is even more startling in light of the fact that Colombia's government is only half functioning. Forced into a 1957 alliance to overthrow Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, the perpetually warring Liberal and Conservative parties invented a rigid agreement to divide political power equally for the next 16 years. Every political organism, from Congress to town councils, was neatly bisected. Liberal Leader Alberto Lleras Camargo last August took the first four-year stint as President, with the understanding that he would be succeeded by a Conservative...
...Detroit, if a compositor works so much as a minute into his lunch period, he gets time and a half for the whole period. A printshop employee, if not notified of a change in his shift before leaving the plant, gets $2 extra "callin" pay-plus overtime until the start of his regular shift...
...annex will be a "coordinate" branch of Kent, will have its own faculty (half women), and will slowly swell to a full four forms by adding one new class each year. For two years there will be no mixed classes, and after that only in some honors courses. And there will be few if any finishing-school touches. Kent's famed "selfhelp" system-which allows the school to save $100,000 a year on maintenance and scale tuition to a boy's means-will apply to the girls too. They will rise at 6:05, make their beds...