Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dartmouth and Princeton, perennially engaged in a struggle for the leadership in the field of the highest percentage of alumni contributors, also changed positions in 1954. Princeton, with a percentage of 67.9, was 0.2 percent higher than Dartmouth, and took the national lead for the first time...
Aramco pays higher wages than anyone else in Saudi Arabia. In Dhahran, the company's headquarters town, an employee draws his living quarters according to seniority and job, not nationality. Aramco's Bedouin workers come off the desert and out of tents and go to live in air-conditioned houses. They have swimming pools hooded against the noonday sun and athletic fields floodlighted for night play. But as its Saudi employees learn to live more like Americans, Aramco itself becomes more Saudi. In its relations with the government and 53-year-old King Saud, Aramco maintains a policy...
...barnacles even on Sundays. He paid tribute to the very heaviest tomes by reclining in a chair to read them with numerous cushions under him. As this made his legs uncomfortable, he placed them on a footstool; this, in turn, made necessary more cushions on the chair, which demanded higher support for the feet. "One is tempted to imagine him, in the course of a long German work, rising rather close to the ceiling...
REDISCOUNT RATE, at which banks borrow from the Federal Reserve, may be nudged higher in the near future to tighten up credit all around, block any new inflation. The FRB's flexible-money policy, which switched from one of "active ease'' to "ease" last fall, is now described as "light restraint." Officials are moving cautiously, and the rediscount rate is not likely to go up by more than one-eighth of one percent from the present...
...companies by taking over the mailorder house and forcing it to buy from Wolfson-run enterprises. Krider assailed Wolfson and his associates for taking 166,975 low-priced shares from one firm that they controlled (New York Ship: building) and trading them on an even basis for higher-priced shares in another Wolfson-run company, the construction firm of Merritt-Chapman & Scott. The deal, said Krider, netted them over $2,000,000. A reporter wanted to know what was the matter with that. Replied Krider: "It's a question of business ethics. At Montgomery Ward it never would have...