Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Financial mismanagement in the government. Semi-independent government corporations, e.g., the Centro Bolivar, the Workers' Bank, are paying many debts in short-term government notes. The contractors and sellers who get the notes must give discounts up to 18% to convert them into cash, so they naturally fatten their prices to cover the expected sacrifice. The absurdity of such costly short-term debt financing (total: some $127 million) in rich, credit-worthy Venezuela seems explainable only in terms of the carefree feeling that "it's only money." Pérez Jiménez, not at all amused...
Richard C. Anderson '56 took top individual speaking honors on the negative side at the tenth annual M.I.T. debate contest held last weekend. The varsity team was eliminated in the semi-final rounds when it lost to St. Peter's College...
...version than in the American. In the original "Mr. Robert," a character just leers about his flirtations, but in the European filming he mumbles a few blunt lines. Usually it is the other way around. India was upset with "Demetrius and the Gladiators," particularly with the scene with a semi-clad gladiator in the background. All the Asian countries are rigidly strict, removing any embrace that lingers more than a second or two ("depending on the quality...
...returned to rule for ten years, and was banished a final time. In 1947 Carol married Lupescu in Brazilian exile, at the side of what he imagined was her deathbed, only to have Magda recover after the ceremony. Meanwhile, in Paris and in other continental haunts familiar to the semi-destitute outcasts of royalty, forgotten Zizi Lambrino reared her son Mircea and dreamed of the day when he might be declared Carol's rightful heir. Mircea learned artistic bookbinding and made his modest way by peddling his skill among the booksellers along Paris' Quai de la Tournelle...
...addition to the Wellesley Widows and perennial guest Al Capp, a semi-professional Dixieland group led by Huell Neidlinger, who quit Yale for professional music, will appear, Neidlinger's group will play only during the beer party...