Word: mid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congress finally, after a four-year-delay, passed a private bill to give $25,000 each to the relatives of 35 servicemen, mostly members of the U.S. Navy band, killed in a mid-air collision over Rio de Janeiro...
...plans to tell professors in mid-April that it wants their Fall reading lists within ten days. Those who miss the deadline will get a reminder, followed two weeks later by another. Then department heads will be asked to get after the professors the Coop still hasn't heard from...
...candidates' canned homilies and tanned profiles intrude irksomely on program schedules. The biennial profusion of campaign billboards and posters stipples the land that Lady Bird wants to beautify and Lyndon yearns to own. Yet the art of politics is not immutable, and this year's mid-term elections highlight a host of developments that are changing the nature of campaigning...
Filed in Pittsburgh's federal district court, the Justice Department's complaint charged that some of the companies .had huddled between November 1960 and mid-1962 to "fix, stabilize and maintain" artificially high prices for inexpensive vitreous-china fixtures, involving some $30 million in sales a year; another group had agreed, beginning in 1962, to drop low-priced (and low-profit) lines of equipment while hiking the tag on the more expensive models, involving about $1 billion in sales all told; company executives had reached their agreements and planned staggered publication of new price lists "in order...
Wadsworth said that when the program began in the mid-1950's "during the days of Sputnik" there was considerable emphasis on accelerating students. Participation in an advanced standing program was "the thing to do," he said. "and thus, don't enter the program merely to be fashionable...