Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inexorably toward the sea, squeezing through valleys, crawling over hills, plunging down the sides of mountains in great frozen cataracts. What it does not bury or crush, it encircles. And finally, at the continent's rim, it meets the frozen seas, and ice battles ice on a titanic scale. Vast crevasses shudder open along the tortured ridges; ice rafts as large as the state of Connecticut are torn loose from the continental shelf and set floating like derelict monsters in the frigid waters...
...large-scale help was on the way. After Dr. Urquhart's wife wrote a nontechnical article in the American Museum of Natural History's magazine Natural History, eager volunteers came forward, and butterfly-tagging started on a continent-wide scale. Again, failure. It soon became apparent that the labels were not sticking in wet weather...
...naturalization order and launched a campaign of economic retaliation. Rice exports, one of South Viet Nam's chief sources of foreign exchange, dwindled to nothing, and to the dismay of Viet Nam's farmers, the domestic price of rice fell to its lowest level in years. Large-scale shipments of Chinese capital to Hong Kong sent the price of gold and black-market dollars soaring in Viet Nam. But stubborn Ngo Dinh Diem had no intention of backing down...
...Essentially Sound." Said Director Jacobsson: "The trading position of the United Kingdom has been and continues to be essentially sound." The new "pressure was not caused by weakness in the current account, but reflected a decline in confidence." The fund's "support on a massive scale" would "effectively contribute to restoration of the strong balance-of-payments position...
...SLIDING-SCALE INSURANCE, with lower rates for big policies, will be tried by Northwestern Mutual Life, first major company to do so. First $5,000 of coverage sells for standard rate, but premium drops $1 per thousand per year on policies from $5,000 to $10,000, drops $1.25 on those over...