Word: submitted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, Deputies from Milan, Naples, Rome and other cities had formed a solid pro-opera bloc. The Under Secretary of State for Spectacles withdrew his lubsidy bill and promised to submit a new, milder version. Florence's monkish Mayor Giorgio La Pira refused to sign orders laying off opera employees on the;rounds that it would require so much in severance pay that it was cheaper to keep ,hem employed. Said he: "Angels sing in perfect harmony. In paradise, nothing but music is heard. I must remind the government that in paradise the angelic chorus s not subject...
When Petrobrás, Brazil's government-owned oil monopoly, asked foreign oil companies late last year to submit bids for supplying 90,000 bbl. of crude oil a day to a projected new refinery in Rio de Janeiro, there was a string attached. In passing, Petrobrás suggested that the oil companies might like to offer financial aid towards construction of the refinery. Last week word came from Brazil that Petrobrás had accepted a Texas Co. offer to supply 15,000 bbl. of crude a day and to make a fiveyear, 6% loan...
...this process, Sullivan managed to circumvent several regulations established to guard against misuse of the power of appointment. The Cambridge Municipal laws state that the Superintendent shall submit nominations with a detailed written report of the "education, experience...and other qualifications" of the nominees. In addition all votes must normally take place at an open meeting, and at a "special meeting" the School Committee can consider only the particular question it was called to discuss...
...question now is how long the citizens of the South can allow themselves to be pushed around." he continued, pointing out that members of the faculties of eight southern state universities must submit their lecture notes to the state legislature for approval...
This reader feels his isolated self-personification more or less inadequate to the occasion of life prior to death, and he seeks purgation in books. But needless to say, he who cannot live with himself does not find is easier to live with another. Rather than submit to a book, he steels himself against it, with alcohol, or inattention, or self-consciousness...