Word: partially
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a month of underground parasitic life, the witchweed makes a partial reform, like a successful mobster who buys a legitimate business and joins the church. It sends a shoot above the ground, unfolds green leaves in the sunlight, and manufactures its food by photosynthesis like any respectable plant, while still getting its water and minerals from the host's roots. Soon its little red flowers bloom and its myriad dustlike seeds poison the soil around...
...estimated 37 million Americans, just under a quarter of the population, wear false teeth (i.e., upper or lower plates, or both), and about 10 million more use partial dentures. For the great majority, regular removable plates are sufficient, but others find ordinary false teeth uncomfortable and irritating. For these "denture neurotics" one possible solution is a feat of tiny-scaled civil engineering known as the dental implant, i.e., fastening the denture to the jawbone to hold it in place permanently...
...real-estate investment trusts the same exemptions from corporation taxes now granted securities investment trusts. Some cities have taken matters into their own hands; New York City is working on twelve middle-income projects (about $21 a room) with rents lower than private buildings because of lower financing costs, partial tax exemptions and nonprofit operation. It also grants private builders tax exemptions and loans of up to 90% of a project's cost...
...Corp. President Harlow H. Curtice. Retorted Chrysler Corp. President Lester Lum Colbert: "You are proposing that management abdicate its responsibilities-and that months after sustaining a drastically reduced income, a company would go before the U.A.W. or before a three-man panel to attempt to justify its need for partial relief." Henry Ford II: "The rapid increases in wages of automobile workers over the past ten years, which were negotiated under the duress of your demands, have unquestionably contributed to inflation. Thus, having poured gasoline on the fires . . . you now stand by and tell us how to fight the blaze...
While three North Carolina cities quietly announced plans for partial desegregation in the fall (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Robert D. Ingle, for almost 30 years pastor of the Berea Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Fla., was all set last week to see that no such fate ever befalls his flock. In what Ingle claims to be the first move of its kind in the South, his congregation has approved the building of a new twelve-grade private school to take care of up to 1,000 white pupils. The church has okayed a $300,000 bond issue for the building; the sale...