Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was only one characteristically French way to stave off such a humiliating anticlimax: the Premier called in the leaders of the dairy bloc and promised an eventual rise in milk prices, if they would not demand one now. Mollet had special reason to worry about milk; it is one of the 213 items on France's official cost-of-living index. For weeks the index has hovered around 149. The day it hits 149.1, legal minimum wages all over France will jump 5%, triggering eventual pay increases for about twelve million French workers...
...WGBH is one of 18 educational TV stations in the U.S. that operate on very high-frequency channels that can be picked up on ordinary receivers. There are five others that operate on ultra high-frequency channels for which most TV sets need a special adapter...
...They have the lowest moral code, if any, of any [group], the biggest capacity for liquor and the most savage and vicious tactics when drunk, which is most of the time." Police say that they would need 2,000 extra officers to cope with hillbilly crime; educators have urged special grade-less schools for their children. But short of sending hillbillies back to the hills-and city officials are not even sure how many there are-authorities see no swift or clear-cut solution to the problem...
Henry J. Friendly '23 is chairman of the committee, which is operating through alumni in 24 cities. The group is soliciting corporations, foundations, and others whose activities give them a special interest in international legal studies...
...Broadmoor's shops and facilities do a landslide business during the playoffs, providing one of the chief reasons that it sponsors the event. Although the members of the different teams are somewhat special guests, they are still tourists, and they eagerly attack the Broadmoor's multitude of souvenir shops. Even the hotel barber is working overtime and commented, "I never knew hockey players had so much hair...