Word: pies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...India's able Finance Minister Morarji Desai, austerity is a way of life. Not only is he a vegetarian and a teetotaler who fasts for a day and a half every week, but he is also a hardheaded fiscal conservative who derides pie-in-the-sky welfare schemes and is an ardent believer in pay-as-you-go financing. Last week Desai presented the Indian Parliament with an austerity budget that will put the entire nation on the Desai standard...
...single, four-page summary from the unified Defense Intelligence Agency. Millions of dollars have been saved on items ranging from belt buckles to bloomers by the creation of a single Defense Supply Agency. Instead of the charming, old-fashioned practice of trying to cut up the defense budget pie more or less equally among the services, McNamara now budgets by function, cutting across service lines to provide funds for Strategic Retaliatory Forces, Continental Air and Missile Defense Forces, General Purpose Forces, Airlift and Sealift Forces, Reserve and National Guard Forces. Over anguished protests, he is pushing ahead with a reorganization...
...claims that any student has the "opportunity of joining its agency, or using both the Student Employment Casual Office and the agency." A student can register with only the Casual Office if he wishes; one does not have to put one's finger in the HSA's corporate pie...
...Architect Joseph L. Eldredge thinks that it cost 7% less than a rectangular one of the same area, partly because there is less outside wall area and partly because plumbing, heating, ventilation and electrical conduits can be better concentrated in a central core. Patients' rooms are shaped like pie slices. Nurses like walking its circular corridors: "It's a kind of optical illusion-we can't see that long hallway stretching ahead." No illusion: a nurse's trip from service area to patient is only about 50 ft. as compared with an average...
...long cherished the "neighborhood school," a concept as American as apple pie. It is the simple idea that children are best served by their own local school-a school that they can walk to. a living symbol of local roots, pride and progress. Now this idea is under sharp attack because it means that where neighborhoods are segregated by race, schools...