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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...houses with a $280,000 "amusement center" containing "game parlors" and "chess rooms." Zensei's Tokyo branch notified the city government that all girls would be fired in the next two months and helped to get other jobs. Said a surprised official: "This time they really seem to mean...
What changed his mind? "We're getting old, you know," he says. "We just don't have the energy we had at 20. One begins to center on certain things." Does it mean that Lennie is finally settling down to one career? Not at all. He is determined to go on composing serious music ("I cannot live without it"). He even hopes to get in a musical comedy occasionally, but with the time and trouble required for Broadway productions, "it will have to be put off a while-a good, solid while...
...recovery problem" the Russians did not mean the problem of bringing the warhead of a long-range missile down through the atmosphere. To recover a living animal that has been riding in a satellite is in some ways harder, in other ways easier. A satellite has to move faster than an ICBM and therefore must dissipate more energy before it can enter dense low-altitude air without burning up. But it has the advantage of skimming the thin top of the atmosphere instead of plunging into it at a steep angle. Theoretically, it can be made to approach the atmosphere...
This vote gave the austerity-minded young leader special powers to lay down the economic law as he sees fit. It will mean higher taxes for Frenchmen...
Replacement of teaching fellows would also mean increased costs in salaries to the University. Instead of paying graduate students small sums to teach parttime, the University would employ Ph.D.'s at the lowest teaching level which would be financially equal to the level of instructors...