Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thorneycroft was adamant. In his fight to choke off the inflationary spiral he had drastically limited private bank loans, upped the Bank of England interest rate to its highest level in 37 years, asked industry to reduce investment. Now, he argued, the government must do its part by refusing to increase its spending by so much as a penny. His opponents, keenly aware of the votes that could be lost by cutting family allowances, retorted that the amount involved was trifling-less than 1% of the projected budget. The showdown came at a late-night Cabinet meeting at 10 Downing...
...trade agreements act "with broadened authority to negotiate." In the specific case of lead and zinc tariffs, which within the law Ike could raise, Washington heard that the White House has quietly shelved its intention to give the U.S. mining industry that kind of relief. But the general level of tariffs is mainly up to Congress, struggling with its conscience and its lobbies...
...Fuchs during the Antarctic spring (Oct.-Nov.). This is fearfully difficult country, with two high, parallel mountain ranges, the Theron Range and the Shackleton Range, looming blackly above the snow. The ice between them is torn into great crevasses. Sometimes vertical ice cliffs rise like stone walls, and level plains turn out to be bogs of deep, soft snow...
Many of the Andean Indians, says Newman, live so high in the mountains that the air contains only two-thirds or one-half as much oxygen, volume for volume, as it does at sea level. To get enough oxygen for the heavy work they do, the Indians have conspicuous barrel chests and outsized lungs, but they also have subtler adaptations to altitude. The pockets in their lungs (alveoli) have more capillaries so that their blood can capture more oxygen from the thin air. A mountain Indian has about two quarts more blood than a sea-level person...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19--Creation of a new Cabinet-level science department was proposed today to centralize and intensify America's effort to meet the Soviet challenge in space...