Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Banker Wallenberg, one of the chief reasons undeveloped countries today cannot find the foreign capital once readily supplied is that the savings in the industrialized countries are too low for the need. With money short all over, they have had to tighten up on credit and interest rates to check inflation, bringing on a survival-of-the-fittest competition among borrowers. Therefore, "projects with relatively low earning power...
Commonest medical complaint of the U.S. tourist is diarrhea, which may be a simple, short-lived discomfort or, in the form of amoebic dysentery, a severe, life-threatening disease. Last week, though Mexicans stoutly insist that their country is not so bad as others to the south, Mexico City's local government took a major step toward eliminating what is variously known as turista, the Aztec two-step, and Montezuma's revenge. In the capital's big, sparkling new Jamaica Market, and in a dozen smaller ones, watchful health inspectors installed a rigorous system of spraying fruits...
Both the U.S. and Russia have sent animals on short rocket flights without hurting them, but this is not at all like keeping humans alive on a satellite or other space vehicle. The difficulties are enormous, and much greater weights of life-preserving equipment must be lifted into space than is possible with today's biggest rockets. The problem of return to earth looks tough too. At the present state of the art, men who fly into space could not return alive...
...multiply subordinates, not rivals"; 2) "Officials make work for each other." Is Official A's workload making him miss the commuter's special? He will not split his functions with B, a potential rival. Instead he will create two subordinates, C and D who in a relatively short time will also accrete two subordinates apiece. Although soon seven men will do the work formerly done by one, none will be idle, for "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion" and there will be orgies of reports, conferences and initialing of each other...
...playing time. The seriousness of the injuries is not yet certain, although Boulris will be out of action at least two or three days and McLaughlin perhaps longer.CRIMSONGeorge A. R. SilverCrimson halfback CHRIS HAUGE (32), flanked by teammate CHET BOULRIS (40) plunges through the Big Green line for a short gain in Saturday's game. Bringing Hauge down is Dartmouth fullback BRIAN HEPBURN (45), while SAM BOLLBY (79) moves into the action from behind...