Word: presents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when the next quotas are written, says : "I don't think we should be favoring a country that is practically waging war on us." But, North Carolina's Representative Harold Cooley, whose Agriculture Committee will initiate the law, plans to try to put over an extension of present quotas for the "probationary" period of one year...
...existed long before Christ, but it adapted itself so well to Christianity that the subtlest and toughest Christian minds worked overtime to combat its combination of mystery, myth and spiritual snob appeal. When orthodox Christianity triumphed at last, the writings of the Gnostics were suppressed so thoroughly that most present-day knowledge of Gnosticism relies on the anti-Gnostic polemics of the fathers. The Thomas Gospel will widen knowledge-and speculation-about Gnostic doctrine...
David v. Goliath. In daring to challenge Goliath IBM, Callies and Vieillard know that they are still in point of present gross (estimated for this year at $35 million) a pretty small David. But they count on the fact that they are showing a fast sales-growth rate. Annually since 1946, their exports have risen 25%. Last year they shipped $18 million worth of equipment to customers in 42 countries. Of that, $9,000,000 went to countries in the dollar area...
...unsettling factor is the long-standing Cambridge tradition that no mayor serve more than one term until all Councillors have had their chance. Hence, present Mayor McNamara, and former Mayors Lynch, De Gugilelmo, and Crane, all would have to buck this custom to gain the Mayor's post...
...Committee, however, remained unconvinced by these arguments, maintaining that NSA is, at present, incapable of any significant accomplishment, and that only a sustained and vigorous effort from several member colleges could make it worthwhile. "Apparently no one at Tech is willing to make this effort," commented Christopher Sprague '60, president of the M.I.T. student body...