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Word: localize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such a program, along the lines of the highly successful crop insurance scheme, would not only fill the gap left by private companies but would also be a safe financial risk for the government. For a federal corporation could absorb the losses from local disasters by spreading its coverage over a wide area and could wait for many years for losses to be paid back in premiums. The federal government, moreover, has the experienced personnel to administer such a program, as indicated by the efficiency of the Armed Forces and crop insurance plans. Flood insurance is no final answer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Came the Deluge | 10/18/1955 | See Source »

...permanent physical removal of enemy linemen. Not only did the Crimson line outcharge Columbia consistently, but it was able to get going and head plays, despite the slickness of the mud. The current edition of the Crimson line shows power and speed, both of them in quantities that other local teams unfortunately have not always...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 10/18/1955 | See Source »

...lease-purchase arrangement, the Government gets a private contractor to pay for the building, keep title to it. The Government moves in, pays the contractor a fixed yearly sum, also reimburses him for local taxes, insurance and other costs. At the end of the lease period (maximum: 25 years), when the contractor's cost is amortized and his profit made, title to the building goes to the Government. Advantages of the lease-purchase device are that it keeps a steady flow of new buildings coming into the federal system, smooths out peaks and valleys in federal spending caused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Lease-Purchase Plan | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

...instead, to supply their patients with "the identities they can use best." This crew moves into Hyde's Mortimer, an abandoned English country seat (it has lost its identity, too) for the club's annual convention. A task force under Captain Mallet recruits a domestic staff of local people. In almost no time, the frantic overworked village doctor is persuaded that he is really happier as a loutish gardener ("The whole nation is on its last legs," he shrieks, "or rather on its doctors'!"). Poor but genteel Miss Paradise and her brother are so skillfully transformed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Who's Really Who? | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

Upton was a leading organizer of a resolution to the Administration opposing the project, which at first drew nearly 100 percent support in the neighborhood. The resolution was drafted and sent to Harvard Hall immediately after the Administration proposal was introduced at a special meeting of local residents in Hunt Hall...

Author: By Richard T. Cooper, | Title: Opposition to Housing Plan Partially Dies | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

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