Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When businessmen expect government to pursue inflationary policies, they are confident of their ability to pass on higher costs in higher prices, without loss of sales volume. They tend to become 'soft' bargainers and to make inflationary wage agreements...
Opponents of the extension have stressed its cost, already estimated at $20 million, and almost sure to go higher. But while the initial costs are great, the improvement will permit substitution of profitable rapid transit operations for deficit-producing bus and trolley routes--a very appealing argument since the MTA was $15 million in the red last year...
Cultural Clamor. For ten years the case dragged through the courts. A Paris tribunal held that Bonnard had committed a crime in writing Marthe's will; he was posthumously declared a forger, thief and receiver of stolen goods. A higher court argued that Bonnard could not have been a receiver of his own paintings, had faked the will only to facilitate matters. The even higher Court of Cassation set aside this decision and reaffirmed the basic law, ruling that an artist's work-unless he draws up a special marriage contract-belongs also to his wife...
...nervous tension. This may range from irrational fear, when confronted with something as objective as a photograph, to chronic delirium or schizophrenia. Then he often finds local itching which he attributes to allergic reactions with an emotional basis. Finally and more surprisingly: among Dr. Bontzolakis' patients, the higher the blood pressure, the greater the tendency to abstractionism...
Last year U.S. farmers seeded 90% of their corn acreage with hybrid corn, got a total yield of 3.4 billion bu.-750 million bu. higher than they could have produced with regular corn. The wonders of hybrid corn are still surprising the scientists. For example, last year Illinois Farmer James Holderman decided to try a new type of hybrid corn, even though the experts warned him it was not suitable for his land. He doubled the amount of fertilizer, planted the rows closer together, and his yield jumped to 175 bu. an acre, compared to an average...