Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...member of the Admissions Department noted that to be accepted, a student applying from first-rate colleges "must have unusual reasons for wanting to come here...
...abolished feudal "Zamindari" which was originally created by the British after their conquest of Bengal. In West Pakistan, a somewhat different system of landlordism has persisted, but plans to reform it are a top priority item with the new Government. Pakistan's population is growing currently at a rate slower than that of the U.S.A. and many other developed countries. Karachi is an over-crowded city because, apart from the fact that it was chosen as the seat of central government on securing independence, it has received and is still receiving a large influx of refugees from India. As regards...
...scenic shots. They may just as well have been filmed on a Cuban beach as in Africa, and the lions seem so visually irrelevent that including them in several crucial scenes of the movie only adds an unsuitable touch of thematic obscurity. All this, even with Tracy's first-rate performance, results in what Producer Leland Hayward admits to be a technically "sloppy" movie...
Percy Lawrence, a South London plumber, was a 50-a-day chain smoker. He had worked up to this forced-draft rate in the Royal Navy during World War II, and never tapered off. As Lawrence lost weight and complained of always being tired, Dr. Paul Frederick Lister advised him to cut down. Still he went right on smoking. Last August Dr. Lister did a bronchoscopy, found cancer of the lung originating in a bronchus (one of the main branches of the windpipe). In little more than two months the cancer killed Lawrence, 51, husband and father...
...rate man, President Power went to work to increase rates, got state utility commissions to okay changes that raised average earnings from 4.3% on investment to 6.6%. Then he used the income to improve service in existing companies, acquire new ones...