Word: similarity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since a service's hardware affects the role it wins in strategy and gives it the backing of a powerful segment of industry, no branch willingly gives up a promising weapon in favor of a similar one developed by a competitor. The Army's attempt to hold a place in space resulted in the Pentagon compromise to manufacture both the Jupiter (Army) and Thor (Air Force) intermediate-range ballistic-missile systems. Today's snowballing result is a duplication in production facilities, costly ground-handling equipment and training, as Jupiters are being installed in Italy and Turkey while...
...Italian government, which keeps tab on its art experts, said that Citizen Porcella was not listed as a first-rate expert, or even as a second-rate one. A Chicago art dealer named Jack Shore, president of the Sheridan Galleries, proudly revealed that Porcella had authenticated half a dozen similar masterpieces for him in the past year (among them a "Leonardo"). All were restored by Zlatoff-Mirsky, whom Shore identified as "one of the great undiscovered American painters." Normally, these would be major art finds, which would set every major U.S. museum scrambling. There has been no scramble...
...GSAS and the Graduate Schools of Education and Public Administration give similar reasons for their $250 tuition increases. The GSAS and School of Education report "necessary" rises in student aid and faculty salaries...
...confirmed yesterday the group's plan for use of the Stadium if the tax-exempt status of the land is threatened by rental to a professional organization. His group, he said, would try to contribute a large amount in the University's name to the United Fund or a similar charity and use the Stadium without charge...
Lecturing before such varied audiences, Duroselle has had an opportunity to note the differences between undergraduates of contrasting nationalities, yet he finds them all rather similar. "There is a bit more individualism in French students," he comments. "That is to say, they don't like so much to be members of clubs and organizations. Here there is much more a sense of community...