Word: standardize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Political ideology apparently is more potent than scientific solidarity. It quoted a Soviet internist, Professor I. Gurevitch, as writing in Klinicheskaya Meditsina that the campaign to reduce fats in the diet is a capitalist plot-"advantageous to the ruling classes, who are at present engaged in lowering the living standard of the masses, in lowering their wages and in raising the price of food and particularly of fat. The masses in capitalist countries suffer from a shortage and not from an excess...
...would be unwise, however, to transfer operational duties to the college. One of the great attractions of the present program is that it gives a standard, both of grading and of content, which shifts duties from college departments to the central testing organization. The avoidance of grading has been a major reason for departmental acceptance of the A.P. program...
...Crimson had a Freshman team this year comparable to the standard Yale product. Eli depth, especially in the distances, will remain strong through the next two years. Two proven performers and several more potential stars will rise to the varsity ranks next winter, but this does not make the Crimson better than Yale...
...national problem, says Canham. One big reason that both the problems of growth and unemployment must be solved: "The U.S. is involved in the greatest competitive struggle in history." Yet Canham favors liberalization of nonstrategic trade with Russia. Says he: "It is definitely in our national interest that the standard of living of the Russian people be improved. But that doesn't mean, for instance, that we should enable them to get into the world petroleum market. That wouldn't necessarily mean a better life for the Russians, and it might give them the chance to exploit other...
Presumably some of the authors with whom the new partners worked before will follow to the new firm. One obstacle to an early mass switch: a clause in standard publishing contracts requiring authors to give their publishers first refusal on their next book. Says Bessie of this clause: "I am not in favor of any devices to tie a writer to his publisher." As an inducement to new authors ("We hope to publish the best we can"), the partners are considering more lucrative terms for writers. One of the trio's projects: a line of high-quality paperbacks...