Word: sponsor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Guatemala's Congress this week passed one of the most sweeping land-reform bills ever enacted in the Western Hemisphere, and sent it to President Jacobo Arbenz. As the measure's prime sponsor, he was expected to sign it promptly into...
...last week the Morelos state legislature wrote an end to quick divorce in Cuernavaca. It voted into law a new divorce bill requiring, among other things, six months' residence. Sponsor of the bill was never-divorced Governor Rodolfo Lopez de Nava, who took office only four weeks ago. Lopez argued that free & easy divorce laws had made the state "notorious...
...nursing calf, a spiny crawfish. In others, he had let his imagination roam, turned out such things as a ferocious sparrow, as seen from the eye of its prey, a beetle, a fantastic, cross-eyed cat, a panorama called Ancient Hunt, showing naked horsemen chasing terrified animals. His sponsors reported that 85,000 people have stopped to look at Paolo's work in two weeks, and a Texas millionaire was so impressed that he offered to sponsor an exhibit in Dallas...
...theory had passed its first great test--not perfectly, but with a better showing than its rivals. Moreover, Leontief was virtually alone in correctly predicting the 1947 steel shortage two years in advance. At that point a host of government agencies, headed by the Air Force, queued up to sponsor his research. Leontief estimates the total amount now being spent yearly at various universities and government bureaus at one and a half million dollars yearly, about $70,000 in developmental work at Harvard. In keeping with its new stature, the official title of the field has become "interindustry economics'; partly...
...take my word for it, go out and buy a box today." Stark also has a heretical notion that "I can sell just as much of any product in two minutes as I now do in seven." Unfortunately for televiewers, there is little chance that any sponsor will give him the chance...