Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's two major farm organizations were so pleased with their guaranteed prices and markets that they raised no objections to the A.E.C.'s right to snoop and expel. The A.E.C. can expropriate farm land from a small farm and join it to a larger farm on the ground of "greater efficiency." An A.E.C. can decide a certain farm is best suited to cattle raising, and order the owner to put up cow barns, whether he can afford it or not. If a farmer rated laggard is put "under supervision," he can get a hearing before the A.E.C...
Hide & Seek. It was an uphill task. The 20,000 partisans dispersed and hid themselves in their huge country (four times larger than France itself). They operated with precision. Secret cells throughout the country kept them informed of French troop dispositions. They usually struck in groups of 10 or 20 partisans who did the shooting, backed up by some 50 auxiliaries who burned crops and buildings, destroyed livestock and equipment. Sometimes, when French troops made open attacks dangerous, rebels doused cats and dogs with gasoline, drove them flaming into barns or haystacks...
...career? The most important reason is the inability of the armed forces to match private industry's two brightest attractions: higher pay and better living conditions, especially for family men. To meet the problem, Burgess offered a couple of realistic solutions: require longer service but offer larger re-enlistment bonuses to highly skilled and hard-to-get specialists. Private industry could help, he believes, by undertaking more of its own training programs instead of using the armed forces as a training school...
...Eastern league title, the Crimson downed the Tigers, 7 to 2, while in the larger Big Three match the varsity...
...larger number in the professions pulls down the average income of our group," Harris continues. "Thus, for the 114 in the professions the mean income is $11,567 and the median, $9,663; for the 57 others (business executives and the like), the respective figures are $21,557 and $17,142, or about twice as high as in the professions...