Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...system cost heavily in corruption aimed at getting favorable rates. Investment was discouraged, because the government's cut worked out as a heavy tax. Worse, controls failed to keep the exchange from slipping. Under pressure from internal inflation, the scale of official rates dropped steadily to as low as 300; the limited free market that the law permitted hit a peak of more than 800 last August. U.S. Economic Consultants Klein & Saks, hired then by Chile to cure its economic fevers, made freeing the peso a high-priority recommendation...
Although maintaining no military forces of its own, Iceland harbors one of the largest NATO air and missile bases containing several thousand NATO troops, hundreds of planes, and large-scale rocket installations. Lying midway between Moscow and New York on the Great Circle air route, the base at Keflavik would be a prime center of operations in the event of general...
...next year with his grant from the Fund for the Advancement of Education will be to determine just what material is necessary and suitable for an elementary college-level course in a language and a science. For a language, Skinner will need the help of experts to scale and translate the material. His experimental "animals" will be graduate students who need to learn a language for their Ph.D. examinations. Besides developing and perfecting the materia, Skinner will have to build enough machines for an actual classroom trial when the grant runs out a year from July...
Satisfied that he has now captured Joan as he had hoped to, Composer Dello Joio is considering a new opera that tells "an intense love story-a story about love itself." Like Trial at Rouen, it will be on a large scale, for Dello Joio, the son of an Italian immigrant, likes to think of himself as a spiritual descendant of Verdi. It is possible that Dello Joio will emerge as the next important grand opera composer. He is already one of the few U.S. composers who can live solely on the income from his compositions...
...Public Health Service announced contracts with five private laboratories for large-scale screening of 2,000 chemical compounds as possible cancer cell killers. Each compound will be tried on three different types of cancer implanted in mice...