Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...where it might be necessary for it to consider whether the company is 'paying the president too much money'-whether the directors 'who aren't doing anything might be getting too much money'-whether 'the engineers ought to be sweeping up the shop instead of designing their products'-whether 'the managerial personnel has gone to seed...
...Assembly must understand," said France's Finance Minister René Pleven, "that we cannot ask aid abroad without first putting our house in order ourselves." After a searching session, the Assembly understood. It approved: 1) a devaluation of the franc (119 to the dollar, instead of 50 to the dollar); 2) a $550,000,000 loan from the U.S. Export-Import Bank; 3) French participation in the Bretton Woods agreement...
Student veterans without dependents rate to receive $65 subsistence per month instead of the former $50, while those with dependents will receive $90 instead of $75 according to the revised GI Bill which was signed by President Truman on December 29 after being passed by Congress on December...
Last week, the University of Chicago announced that Tugwell would teach political science and direct a new department of civic planning there, starting next July 1. His job, says his new boss, Dean Robert Redfield, will be to develop planning as "a science instead of guesswork . . . [to provide] special research instead of hunches, for instance, to predict population changes . . . [to] develop a coordinated view of the community as a whole...
...that disintegrates into lower-weight elements and eventually becomes lead. Of the three standard radioactive progressions - uranium-radium, actinium and thorium-those of uranium and thorium are the most alike. According to the Smyth report, thorium was considered as a basic source of atomic power, but uranium was chosen instead...