Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moscow had greeted the SEATO conferees with its standard warning to SEATO's Asian members that nuclear bases on their soil would expose them to "powerful retaliatory blows." It was a measure of SEATO's maturity, in its fourth year, that no member felt it necessary to reply...
Real or fictitious, plots are a standard part of every dramatic turn in the Middle East's crises, rousing mass anger or diverting the attention of the streets. Last week plots were busting out all over. Tunisia's Habib Bourguiba charged that Cairo had plotted to have him assassinated. In Egypt, Nasser's intelligence officers charged that five conspirators 'had accepted British and Saudi money in a plot to assassinate Nasser last year. The Nasser-Serraj bombshell successfully diverted Syrians' attention from Nasser's announcement of the new republic's Cabinet-which gives...
...week's end the reduction on G.E.'s lines and those of the other Fair Traders hit 50% in some stores, but retailers thought they would soon settle down to the 25%-to-35% discount pattern U.S. consumers have come to accept as standard for appliances. Said Discounter Masters: "I congratulate G.E. on finally recognizing the truth of what we've been saying for years-that Fair Trade is unfair to consumer and manufacturer alike...
...even the discount houses had any idea that cut-rates would snowball so far so fast. To compete with low-overhead discounters, even the biggest stores run frequent "warehouse sales," "specials," "closeouts," trading at 10% above cost v. the standard 30% to 40% markups. Originally, the big stores restricted competition to a few fast-selling items; now they match discounters dollar for dollar. Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus, Los Angeles' Barker Bros., Jordan, Marsh Co. have started running almost identical ads proclaiming an old retailing slogan: "We Will Not Be Undersold." Milwaukee's Boston Store last week advertised...
Nevertheless, a constant feeling of limitation and constraint hampers the orchestra and prevents the musical quality of their playing from attaining to the standard of their technique. Such a defect becomes particularly evident in a concert devoted to works like the "Eroica" Symphony, the G-Major Piano Concerto, and the "Egmont" Overture--works offering possibilities in interpretation and depth that are conspicuously avoided...