Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long been a comprehensive source of television-rating data and yet was overlooked in your article. Videodex is the pioneer diary service (a technique later adopted by other services), currently issues a monthly National TV Rating Report based on a larger sample than any other service, and has more local market ratings more frequently than any other service...
Partner's Promise. Ike well knew that the current drought was generally beyond the repair of a single storm, or even a single rainy season, that the time was late for local, state and national agencies to get to work on programs that would make the most of dwindling water resources, to reseed the millions of remaining acres of Great Plains grazing land that are ready to blow. At trip's end, addressing a special drought conference at McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita, Ike promised to ask Congress for $76 million for emergency drought relief (credit...
...curb its intransigence, e.g., Egyptian Ambassador Ahmed Hussein failed to win release of the more than $40 million in Egyptian assets frozen by the U.S. after Egypt nationalized the Suez. Similarly, the U.S. continued to stall on Egypt's month-old request to buy American surplus wheat with local currency and thus help shore up its sagging economy. Behind the American moves was a common denominator: the conviction that U.S.-Egyptian relations-political and economic-hinge on Colonel Nasser's willingness to help settle Mideast problems within the frame of international...
...mayor in 1953. When Alabama's highest court upheld the decision, his lawyers brought the case to the U.S. Supreme Court on the ground that Fikes had been denied due process before and during his trial. After his arrest, they argued, Fikes had first been lodged in a local jail, then whisked away to a state prison, where he was held incommunicado for more than a week-during which state officers obtained two confessions that later provided the basis for his conviction. Although the lawyers were unable to prove physical brutality, they declared that the prisoner's mental...
...Progress. Saud has also tried to ease the lot of Islam's pilgrims. Every year 200,000 of them make the long trek to Mecca to kiss the Sacred Black Stone and walk the ritual seven times around the Kaaba. Once thousands died of sunstroke or disease, and local Arabs fleeced them of their last pennies. Saud established first-aid stations, erected sun shelters, built a $3,000,000 quarantine station at Jiddah, allocated $132 million to refurbish the Great Mosque, straighten Mecca's streets, expand its accommodations. The pilgrim's head tax (among the chief...