Word: partiality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...owners acted in executive session after completing the league's partial draft session. The Southwest Conference produced the two top choices in the draft when the Chicago Cardinals selected King Hill, standout Rice quarterback, and big John Crow, power running fullback of Texas...
...enough to go out every morning and fight the bigger (circ. 2,083,972), richer, lustier New York Daily News, Hearst's New York Mirror (circ. 876,938) loves boys and girls. In what he called a "partial listing," Mirror Publisher Charles B. McCabe took a full-page ad in the rival New York Times last week to reel off some of the activities that engage the Mirror when it is not looking for news: art in the public schools, basketball tournaments, Boy Scout awards, Children's Day, Christmas carol singing, folk-dance festival, golf tournament, handball tournament...
...within which all conventional aircraft fly. This follows the present system where nations can fly over each other's land only after negotiating agreements. Above this territorial space would be a zone up to three hundred miles high of "contiguous" air space. Haley points out that nations would have partial sovereignty over this area, since most future flights through this zone would be ground to ground rocket flights. Since transportation would have to use the landing facilities of a certain country, that nation could impose its own regulations. Beyond the three hundred mile zone would be the "high seas...
Radical Socialist Gaillard, the author of France's recent too-little-and-too-late partial devaluation of the franc, set out to persuade the conservatives and Socialists, who keep rejecting one another's candidates, that he should head a "government to defend the republic." The Socialists balked, but finally at week's end agreed to back him. Barring a last-minute hitch, Gaillard was to be voted into office this week, on his 38th birthday, as the youngest Premier in the history of modern France...
...countries are not anti-capitalist at all; they are just nationalistic−and understandably so. They want to be the bosses of their own industries. They prefer loans from foreign governments to foreign investments because they see less danger of losing control of their plants. Cuaderno's own partial solution: foreign investment on a joint-venture basis...