Word: present
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nowadays, puffing his pipe and peering through thick-rimmed glasses, Betancourt is a picture of stability, calm, reason. But much of the old leftist is still there. He announced last week that although present oil concessions to foreign interests are safe, Venezuela will grant no more concessions. He promised to form a government company for further oil development. Moreover, 50-50 is on the way out: "I could not say that 50-50 should be converted to 75-25, but this matter should be the object of serious studies by technicians." He will doubtless renew-with less disruptive speed...
...weak spot in the outer, muscular layers. It may be no bigger than a BB shot, or it may be the size of a plum with a stalklike neck. If the neck is extremely narrow, fecal matter forced into the diverticulum will stay there, setting up an ever-present threat of infection and making the condition harder to detect since the barium used to get X-ray contrast may not penetrate the diverticulum sufficiently. In the symptom-free stage of diverticulosis there may be dozens of small diverticula scattered along the colon...
...fast that Rambler will increase its capacity from 330,000 to 440,000 cars annually. To complete the expansion before the 1960 model year, Romney will spend $10,150,000 on Rambler's facilities at Milwaukee and Kenosha, Wis., add at least 4,500 to the present payroll of some 18,000. With sales now running at a rate of more than 300,000 a year, Romney has upped his sights, expects to reach an annual rate of 400,000 by late fall...
Speaking at the Planning Board's public hearing on the proposed amendment, Whitlock pointed out that "the University has decided to build high wherever feasible," and asserted that if adopted in its present form the new ordinance might prevent this "intense use" of Harvard's property...
Guerard confirmed last night that his course would substitute a 3000-word essay for the final exam and termed the procedure "an educationally better thing to do" at present. Guerard explained that the Faculty Committee on Educational Policy has fully discussed the new plan. The group termed it "an experiment," not a change in policy or the start of a trend...