Word: sanely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When possible, the AEC makes a lump-sum contract with the lowest bidder, but often the projects are so new and so uncertain that no sane board of directors will make such a guarantee to deliver results. It follows that many contracts must be "cost plus a fixed fee," in spite of the risk to the taxpayer. Since the contractor does not profit by keeping costs down, he is tempted to permit abuses-from loafing to large-scale inefficiency. In shadowy AEC-land, screened with secrecy and rippling with money, a crooked or careless corporation might find easy pickings...
...suede shoes carefully and showed no sign of emotion. In a frank talk with a county-jail psychiatrist, she observed that she had often longed to strangle one of her own small brothers. The psychiatrist's opinion -that she had responded to an irresistible impulse, but was legally sane-left her unmoved...
...Council said, "we could, of course, suggest such answers as fraternities or student unions which meet the social needs of other student bodies, but these are unsuited to Harvard. In the last analysis, we believe that our original proposals as amended by the Masters offer the only sane and workable solution...
...Keeps Me Company." It was the safe, sane & solid Republican era of William Howard Taft-made to order for a bright, retentive young man with good connections. He was a friend of the President's oldest son, Robert; he saw a good deal of a Watertown lawyer named Robert Lansing, who had married his aunt and later was to become Secretary of State under Wilson. In two years, the turbine purred through a three-year law course at George Washington University (top of the class), purred on and mastered New York State's bar exam...
...Governor Munoz to block registration for this week's vote. Horrified, Puerto Ricans repudiated the Nationalists. Now serving a sentence of seven to 15 years for his part in the plot, Nationalist Boss Pedro Albizu Campos was under examination by psychiatrists last week to determine whether he is sane...