Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SEAWAYS & AIRWAYS. Ripe for reduction is the $600 million yearly subsidy to the aged, ailing merchant marine. A presidential task force recommended a two-thirds slash over a long-term period, but so far the powerful U.S. shipbuilding lobby has blocked the plan. In the air, the $54 million subsidy to regional airlines could be brought down much further because efficient small jets have bolstered the profits of the little lines...
...average prime-time audience that is 11% bigger than NBC's and a record 25% ahead of third-place ABC. Yet standing as No. 1 can be an honor without profit in TV country. CBS's earnings fell 43% in the third quarter compared with the same period last year, and, according to the October tabulation of commercial-time sales, is lagging behind its 1966 record, while ABC and NBC are running ahead of theirs...
...before demolition was to begin last week, Owner Inumaru met with representatives from the village and agreed to save the main lobby, at least temporarily. Assuming the estimated $4,000,000 can be raised, Wright's spiritual presence seems likely to settle down with relics from the Meiji period (1868-1912). The prospect of becoming a part of Japan's architectural heritage would probably have pleased him, since he greatly admired 19th century Japanese prints, which, said he, preached "the gospel of the elimination of the insignificant...
...change, admissions officials explain, is the result of better applicants. The median SAT score has increased from 560 to 654 over the ten-year period. Now only about 1000 applicants are rejected annually for fear they cannot handle the work...
...workers received an adjustment of 4 per cent in their wages from July, 1966 to July 1967; a 4 1/2 per cent wage increase for the year ending July 28, 1968; and a 5 per cent increment for the final contract period, which extends to December...