Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Enrico Mattei, boss of Italy's state oil monopoly, E.N.I., gave the subject one kind of thoughtful attention. He hopped over to Morocco to sign an agreement giving him exploration and exploitation rights for the oil in an null tract in the Tarfaya province in western Sahara. The split: 75% of the profits for Morocco, 25% for Italy's E.N.I...
...million for NIH, while the Senate's bill called for an Everest ascent to $321 million. At week's end House-Senate conferees were deadlocked, decided to take a two-week breather. But if the Senate prevailed over the House-even so far as to win a split-the-difference agreement -the nation's medical research outlays would be starting up the Himalayan curve recommended by Stanhope Bayne-Jones and his colleagues...
...mention of books leads to homework: Where is it? When I finally asked one Sister why there couldn't be more of it (hardhearted mother!), she explained that hers is a split class: two grades in one room. She teaches one class in the morning and assigns 'homework' for the afternoon, when she teaches the other class. If I understand the procedure, some of our children actually attend school for one-half of the day . . . No wonder we often sense a lack of discipline when the children report the day's activities...
...Topeka's WREN. Ready to challenge the new champion was Mrs. Edith Fisher, 29, a clerk in a mailorder house in Rocky Mount, N.C., who had been briefly champion with 91 hours, and was raring to try again. Allowed Edith: "I feel as fine as a frog hair split four ways-and you don't get no finer than that. Lord willing, and the creek don't rise, I'm going to win this contest...
...local bishop taking the nearby village of Giglio out of the Sant'Angelo parish. To the 500-odd villagers, this parish chopping seemed intolerable. Sant'Angelo parish had become too big, insisted the bishop. Retorted Emilio Cianfarano, Sant'Angelo's rebel chief: "When you split a family, the whole family suffers." And besides, grumbled the rebels, the bishop had been swayed by Giglio donations of nearly $5,000 toward a new church. Despite the heat caused by such arguments, the villagers failed in their early-morning assault. Before nightfall, 70 more cops arrived from nearby towns...