Word: phasing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While speculations and schemes for curricular revolution are rising around the University, the Program of Advanced Standing is emerging from its experimental phase and is settling into a regular and respected role in the College's academic system...
...Petroquímica seems destined not only to grow but to become a threat to foreign oilmen. Caldera is building a small (3,000 bbl. a day) oil refinery, plans to build a huge one (300,000 bbl. a day) in the industry's third phase. The fact that most refining of Venezuelan crude is now done elsewhere is a sore issue between the government and the foreign-owned companies. La Petroquímica's action in building refineries, which primarily make fuel rather than the raw materials of petrochemicals, is a clear statement that Venezuela intends...
...possibility of "fertility control" arises from the fact that the drug, when taken on certain schedules, apparently prevents ovulation. Since no ovum is then released, there is technically no destruction of life. Studies of the hormone's action on this phase of the cycle are far from complete. Even when the drug is released by the FDA, it will be strictly a prescription item; its effects are so tricky and complicated-there may be dangers still unsuspected-that women will be sharply discouraged from trying to doctor themselves with...
Independent federal regulatory commissions are preparing to face an investigation of their wide influence. The proliferation of such agencies as the SEC and FCC is an important phase in the growth of the national bureaucracy. The proposed inquiry by Representative Moulder's subcommittee of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce should lead to better means of holding these agencies responsible to Congress, as well as to exposure of abuses of their powers...
...than done. Through the length and breadth of India, there are more than 140 different systems of weights and measures. Dates and records are kept according to 30 different calendars, at least one of which, instituted more than 500 years ago with a slight miscalculation, has slipped out of phase by 23.2 days, so that Hindu dances meant for moonlit nights are often performed in total darkness. To top it all, the Indian coinage system, based on the coinage standardized by conquering British in 1835, is at least as unwieldy as that used in Britain itself...