Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Middle East. Peace, independence and higher living standards are still the U.S. objectives, said Ike and Dulles. The U.S. had taken no decision on Israel's request for U.S. arms; the U.S. did not agree with Britain that Egypt's Premier Nasser was a menace. The President saw no need for "a firmer line": "I would have to say 'firmer line' with respect to what, where, when . . . [The Middle East problem] is like a stack of jackstraws. Every time you touch one, you are very apt to move the whole crowd, and equilibrium...
...Dual parity, an arrangement that would set up two methods of calculating parity prices on wheat, corn, cotton, rice and peanuts and give farmers the higher of the two. (Said Benson: "This would make a joke of parity. Parity . . . would become a statistical stairway to the promised land...
...postgraduate record of its great 1948 football team (Big Ten champion) the University of Michigan's Alumnus offered evidence that star athletes are not the academic dopes that legend has them. Of the 34 men who won their letters, all graduated on time, and seven went on to higher degrees. Of the 22 top players, three are doctors, one is a medical student, two are lawyers, two are architects, eleven are in business, one is a TV sports director, only two have become football coaches...
...HIGHER OIL PRICES are on the way, says Sinclair Oil Corp. President P. C. Spencer. Though producers have held prices fairly stable for almost three years, the cost of finding oil and the cost of refining it are rising so fast that the industry wants a flat 20% hike in the price of crude oil, with commensurate price boosts for all refined products...
...American people, I deeply believe, want something more than mere survival or even a quick and easy plan to destroy our adversaries. Indeed, every time they have been offered some national responsible, higher sense of purpose they have grasped it and understood...