Word: perlis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this 30-year period, expenses have grown six-fold, from $11.6 million to $66 million. Thus, endowment funds today meet only 24 per cent of the University's costs, a smaller percentage than in previous years...
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia--Yugoslavia's Communist government has announced it will increase salaries and wages of its officials by 10 per cent starting next year...
...boost is intended to compensate in part for increased rents. They are going up 250 per cent in January...
India and the U.S., so very different-one with the highest per capita income in the world, the other with very nearly the lowest-so long at odds in foreign policy, now find themselves accenting what they have in common: they are the world's two largest democracies. Both threw off British rule. In Gandhi and in Lincoln, each has a national hero whose qualities of charity, compassion and gentleness both nations revere. U.S. aid to India, once grudgingly given and grudgingly received, has accelerated rapidly of late, is now past the $2 billion mark. As Indians get over...
...comers, but only one man from each news medium (the wire services and TV networks were allowed two reporters and two photographers each) would be put aboard Pan American's jet-powered Boeing 707 chartered for the press. The cost for transportation and hotels would be $4,000 per traveler, and a letter of application would be considered a contract for that amount. After this announcement, applications dwindled magically to 83 men and one woman, Elaine Shepard of Prentice-Hall (school books, trade publications), as nonworking applicants who were just going along for the ride dropped...