Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...isolation of his small, green-tinted law office on Chicago's South La Salle Street. There, shirt-sleeved and with tie askew, he revised, updated, rephrased and polished. On the convention's last night Adlai Stevenson stood up before the Democratic delegates as their second-time standard bearer, accepted the nomination in a fighting speech studded with epigrams and clearly wrought phrases that brought applause from his audience 53 times...
...turning point came in 1932, when Standard Oil of California hit oil on Bahrein. Belgrave persuaded the Sheik to take a step unprecedented for an Arab ruler: to split Bahrein's oil income ($8,500,000 in 1955) three ways−one-third to the Sheik, one-third to "the people" and one-third to a national reserve fund. The consequence is that while the oil wealth of neighboring Arab countries has often been squandered on Cadillacs, harems and princely pub-crawls, Bahrein's oil has helped to propel a whole people into the 20th century...
...Garage. Victim No. 4 was a gentleman named Jerzy de Laveaux who lived in the apartment above Mazurkiewicz and possessed, among other things, a 42-lb. solid gold bar, a ten-carat diamond worth $5,000 and perhaps $10.000 in American greenbacks (the standard black-market medium). Mazurkiewicz invited him into the woods to swap currencies, then murdered him and dumped his body in the river...
...pure sport. People don't recognize sport unless it comes with a standard label. Some people tickle minnows; others have jeeps. Why do we do it? Every Saturday you have thousands of guys kicking themselves up a football field. In the end they're covered with mud or in a hospital. Nobody asks them why they do it. Barring other income, I have enough now so that then I get back to Montreal I'll have just enough for fare home to Australia. At the end, a football player has enough to cart himself and his bruises...
...business philosophy may eventually squeeze out all free enterprise. Oil companies, with a greater investment than any other foreign industry, are already seeing Red. Russia has offered to lend India 250 oil geologists, says it wants no oil rights in return. Though British and U.S. companies, e.g., Burmah Oil, Standard Vacuum, have spent years and millions of dollars to develop new oil resources in India, Russian surveys have encouraged the Indian government to look for oil on its own. Last May, with Rumanian crews and equipment, the government started exploration work in Bengal and test-drilling in Punjab...