Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the 50-50 provisions of Venezuela's pattern-setting oil law of 1943 and subsequent legislation, foreign oilmen, once they are in production, must pay at least half of their profits to the Venezuelan treasury. But to get concessions in the first place, they must make bids, offering what the law calls "special advantages" to Venezuela, e.g., guarantees to refine more oil in Venezuela, bonuses of plain cash. The bidders, for the most part big foreign oil companies, have generally chosen to pay cash. The government has recently collected, or is about to collect, a cool $310 million...
...Louis' answer, described last week by officials at an opening-of-school conference, could well provide a pattern for harried administrators attempting to cope with the problem in other cities and towns...
...they had, and, after tearing Estes away with some difficulty, they entered a canary-yellow Cadillac to ride into Santa Fe for a public appearance on the Plaza and a La Fonda Hotel political conference with Democrats from seven states. Twenty-four hours and 1,107 miles later, the pattern was repeated: at Vancouver, Wash., where the conference with party leaders was delayed for 30 minutes while Estes shook hands...
...reappears throughout all of Toynbee's writings. In an era when most historians, of what Toynbee himself has called the just-one-damn-thing-after-another school, saw religion either as a block to progress or else considered it beside the point, Toynbee gave history not only a pattern but a spiritual end. He reached the conclusion that man's real history is religieus history and that civilizations are really nothing but steppingstones in man's progress to deeper spiritual insight. Yet Toynbee, an Anglican in childhood, always showed himself so ready to range various prophets, gods...
...clear and resourceful prose, Kennan has threaded through a huge maze of diplomatic papers to present a clear picture of America's first frustrations in dealing with the new power. The very first year of the Red Revolution set the future pattern: Western liberal gullibility trying to cope with men who have raised deceit to the level of a philosophy...