Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...experiment, he sat down beneath a Bodhi tree at Bodh Gaya in northeastern India and determined not to move until he had plumbed the secret of existence. After 49 days it came-what Buddhists call The Enlightenment. "I knew," said Buddha, " 'rebirth' has been destroyed, the higher life has been led; what had to be done has been done. I have no more to do with this world...
...produce graduates with at least an elementary knowledge of how to write. Said Rhetoric 100's Professor Charles W. Roberts: "Laboring to get 18-year-old men and women to tell the difference between 'their' and 'there' is not the proper business of higher education...
CANNED VEGETABLES are going up. Canners and freezers currently negotiating contracts for their 1956 pack report paying up to 35% more for tomatoes, from 10% to 15% more for celery, spinach and cauliflower plus higher costs for tin cans, wages and freight...
...FARES will get their first overall investigation from CAB. Under congressional pressure, CAB will check to see if fares it okayed for 13 domestic trunk lines are too high. A better target for CAB: international air fares, which in some cases are more than 200% higher than domestic routes over comparable distances...
...either committed itself to or was considering. The total came to 1,000,000 tons annually for the next ten years, with a total capacity for U.S. Steel of nearly 50 million tons by 1966. The cost will be $5 billion, and to finance it; U.S. Steel must have higher prices. Said Big Steel's Blough: ''Our profits, at their present level, could neither support nor finance the heavy capital expenditures that we must make." Blough's statement poured added fuel on a hot debate blazing through U.S. industry: Should steel prices go up this year...