Word: rented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hugh Gaitskell's death caused a seismic shock in the Labor Party, for he alone was responsible for bringing Labor to the point where it could be seriously reckoned as a potential alternative government. When he succeeded Clement Attlee as opposition leader in 1955, he inherited a party rent by dissension and choked by the dogma and tradition of class warfare. But in his seven years of leadership, he had largely healed Labor's divisive internal lesions, trimmed away many of its stifling old Socialist doctrines, and so successfully imprinted his modern ideas on the party that...
...elaborate sets of word-dividing rules. This saves part of the cost of the word dictionary, but it can also trick the computer into making errors. All such systems using full-fledged computers are expensive. The RCA 301, with associated equipment, costs the Los Angeles Times a monthly rent of $5.170. but when it is not busy at its primary job, it does extra duty making out the payroll and billing advertisers. Much simpler is the Linasec machine made by Compugraphic Corp. of Brookline. Mass., which is not too proud to ask help from that cheap, old-fashioned computer...
Rabun Gap-Nacoochee is a 1,800-acre farm run largely by its 100 boarding boys and girls, who pay tuition. Under a unique setup, their high-school education is provided by the Rabun County public school system, which gives the farm school $1 a year as rent for classrooms, supplies ten teachers and 130 day students (who pay no tuition). To compound these contradictions, overall control is vested in the Presbyterian Synod of Georgia, and the school trustees make a point of seeing to it that religion is stressed for all 230 students...
...Away from the Wall, prosperous West Berlin seemed almost carefree. Bundled in overcoats, citizens jammed the outdoor cafes for hot coffee and rich pastry, while their feet froze and their necks blistered from the heat of overhanging radiant coils. Along the broad Kurfürstendamm, young art students collected rent money by drawing colored chalk reproductions of the madonnas of Giorgione and Fra Angelico. In the fairyland of the big department stores, late shoppers were snapping up collapsible 6-ft. Christmas trees, black lace nightgowns from Paris, Guardsmen neckties from London. Retsina wine from Greece...
...managers are currently engaged in a doorbell-ringing campaign to line up more commercial banking business. In line with this drive, the company recently announced plans to put up a new commercial banking office in the City of London. Encouraged by the profitability of its 49% interest in Hertz Rent a Car abroad, Amexco is also actively seeking more overseas activities in which to invest. Says Howard Clark: "We have a long way to go to realize our potential. And a large part of that potential is outside...