Word: standardized
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...most shameful moment of national life in Latin America comes when a military dictator strikes out the nearly standard constitutional provision forbidding a President to succeed himself, and prolongs his own term. When that moment came last week in Colombia, civilians-students, bankers and priests-told the strongman to go. For the intimate story, see HEMISPHERE, The Strongman Falls...
...Chengting, 150 miles southwest of Peking, students actually staged a march on the capital, and party officials had to cajole them into returning to their classes. In Harbin students have flatly refused to attend standard Communist lectures on "collective life, political theories and central guidance," i.e., party rule...
...Sinclair Oil Corp., Tidewater Oil Co., Standard Oil Co. (Ohio), Standard Oil Co. (Indiana) and Cities Service Co. announced their best earnings in history, with profits up anywhere from 8.5% to 29%. ¶Eastman Kodak Co., with gains in nearly all major photographic lines, reported record sales and profits for 1957's first quarter. Sales were up 5.4% to $163 million, while earnings rose 4% higher than in 1956 to $17.7 million. ¶ Federated Department Stores, Inc. announced a new record for the fiscal year ended Feb. 2. Sales jumped $63.7 million to an alltime high of $601 million...
...course has, over the years, tried to better its means of achieving a "Harvard Standard" in under-graduate writing. To further this end a more compact Handbook will be published next year. It will include reference material for figurative language problems (the task of Language and Informal Logic this year) and will be supplemented by a dozen or so "top-flight" essays from present freshman writing. With the Handbook for reference, the high-grade essays as a standard, and revised editions of the two anthologies for inspiration, incoming freshmen and Director Harold Martin plan to settle down to an efficient...
...most important problem centers around the status of the Church as a teacher and shepherd of the faithful in a society which admits various, indeed conflicting, moral standards. It is expected that in this situation the Church would furnish guiding principles of moral decency for her members. These principals may vary from culture to culture, for each culture will inevitably present unique confrontations to a moral standard: America's problems being different from those of Continental Europe...