Word: standardized
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...article "Success in Sicily" contained a statement that Gulf Oil (i.e., Gulf Italia Co.) gets from its Sicilian oil-production operations 80% of all profits, instead of the standard fifty-fifty split. The truth is that Gulf Italia Co., under its concession terms established in 1954, pays to the Sicilian government a royalty of one-eighth of the gross production, plus corporate taxes (i.e., income tax and tax on the capital and on the extra profits). The combined and aggregate payment to the government of royalty and taxes brings about a fair and equitable profit sharing, which is practically equivalent...
While Sputniks I and II still orbit overhead, scientists around the world are racing through mountains of data to discover how information on the movements of the Russians' artificial moons has altered standard theories of the earth and its atmosphere. Last week scientists at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge suggested a drastic revision of an accepted notion of the earth's upper atmosphere: at about 137 miles altitude, the atmosphere may be almost nine times as dense as scientists once believed...
Ever since its season-opening loss to B.U., the Crimson has shown a visible improvement in both of its subsequent victories against B.C. and Clarkson. To beat the Larries tonight, the Crimson must keep up the high standard of play in such vital departments as speed and backchecking that it has demonstrated in its last two starts...
...Charles E. Spahr, 44, executive vice president of Standard Oil Co. (Ohio) since 1955, was chosen president to succeed Clyde T. Foster, 64, who continues as chairman of the board and chief executive officer. The youngest president in Sohio history, Spahr graduated as a civil engineer from the University of Kansas in 1934 and from Harvard Business School in 1938. He worked briefly for Phillips Petroleum Co., joined Sohio in 1939 as a pipeline engineer before going to Burma in World War II as an Army Corps of Engineers major in charge of pipeline construction. Back at Sohio, he took...
...evident-from what is easily the strongest moment in the film-that the moviemakers regard a passionate adultery as a minor offense, compared to a loveless marriage. In the latter case, the offense is against nature, and nature is the standard in this picture...