Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...building line is part of long-range city plans to widen major thoroughfares without necessitating large scale seizures of property...
...among the "upper-middle peasants." Stalin's forced collectivization of Russian agriculture in the 19305-3 program less radical than the establishment of the Chinese communes-was achieved only at the cost of more than 10 million Russian lives. Whether Mao can succeed without resistance on a similar scale in China remains to be seen. The success or failure of Mao's big gamble will obviously influence the audacity or caution of Peking's foreign policy diversions...
...State Jewelry Trade Organization" and "State Insurance is selling insurance for household goods." To get American-style hard sell, the Ministry of Culture called for "creative, talented people" to staff the new "Advertising-Publishing office" set up to improve shop-window displays, advertising signs and billboards on a nationwide scale...
...show's large-scale professionalism is a mixed blessing: it tends to put the packaging above the product, and to substitute mere method for point of view. Jean Kerr's daisies bloom more bountifully in suburban soil than in Broadway asphalt. And early bang-bang Westerns and supercolossal Near-Easterns have not only had their tales pulled all too often, but also time and television have made the nickelodeon a cherished relic like the model T, fitter for nostalgia than satire. Out of early films Goldilocks fetches up some indulgent laughs, but never any period lure. And Goldilocks...
...encouraging that a candidate for public office has come up with at least some public health insurance proposals. Hopefully such suggestions will be solidified in legislation on as wide a scale as possible...