Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cape Canaveral, only 4½ hours after the Vandenberg shot at the other edge of the U.S., another Thor leaped from its pad carrying a nuclear warhead (minus fissionable material) and a triggering mechanism in its nose, scored an equally good...
...Minus the Good Housekeeping seal of approval, wiry, grey-thatched Herb Mayes, 58, still had some of the seal's benefits. To get rid of him, Deems bought his contract, which ran for 2½ more years at a salary close...
...enemy-F.L.N. gunmen herded more than 300 peasants into the village of Kasba Mechta (TIME, June 10, 1957), and, when darkness fell, passed among them shooting and stabbing until all were dead. Moslems who persisted in active loyalty to France risked F.L.N. "Execution"-or being found alive but minus ears, noses or tongues...
Loss Is a Crime. Matsushita has few, if any, equals in vigorous defense of free enterprise. He once declared, to a leftist's assertion that profits are wrong, that a "minus profit [i.e., a business loss] is a social crime." Like his opposite members in the U.S., Matsushita worries about taxes, frets over government interference: "Business skill cannot be deployed effectively unless businessmen have 70% to 80% freedom. In Japan there is about 50% government interference...
Goren goofed in permitting the opposition to steal a game contract. A six-club sacrifice would only cost 300 or 500 set against the minus 650 which Goren incurred...