Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greying elder statesman of Arab oil diplomacy, Tariki is not satisfied with the 50-50 split in oil royalties and says: "It is only a matter of time before we get the same 60-40 split that the Venezuelans announced in December." When Western oilmen remind him that their contracts run into the next century, Tariki replies: "Any concession between a government and a company is not worth a damn if it does not please the people...
...recalls, "I got so interested in the Harvard Student Union that I had no time for my studies. The Union had all kinds of people--radicals, socialists, pacifists, communists and God knows what else. We spent most of our time discussing isolation, collective security, Hitler, and Spain. We were split on Hitler: some of us felt that use of force and violence and war was just a delusion; others said that the only language Hitler knew was violence...
...approximately $400 per year for 10-12 working hours a week, faculty-aide salaries will probably not rise next year. The Committee had considered either paying all employees $500 per year, or devising a split salary schedule which would provide more for "needy" students than "non-needy" students, but decided to make no changes...
...Freshmen split their first two games this season, dropping the opener to North-eastern, 9 to 6, and outscoring M.I.T...
...newspapers exposing the whole fraud. Object of Tass's excitement: the typical U.S. home that thousands of Russians will see in Moscow this summer as part of the first major U.S. exhibition in Russia (TIME, March 16). The six-room house, dubbed a "splitnik" because it will be split through the middle to give Russians a better look, costs $13,000, contains $5,000 worth of furniture supplied by Manhattan's Macy's. Or so the Americans said...