Word: terme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fulfilled their military obligation. And in the case of most critical skills, it takes many thousands of dollars and several years to train competent personnel. Yet private industry most often reaps the fruit of this expensive training, because less than one out of four re-enlist for a second term. Even this appallingly low figure is misleading because twice as many soldiers in the so-called "soft" skills, such as cooks or truck drivers re-enlist as those in the "hard" skills, such as guided missile technicians and the like...
...channel the development of these countries, the Administration requested a two-million dollar loan fund, rather than earmarked grants which leave little room for flexibility, discretion, and long term planing...
...undergraduates must file final study cards for the fall term before 5 p.m. today at 2 University Hall. Failure to hand in cards on time will result in a $10 charge during the first week after they are due, and a $20 fine thereafter...
...ease? Last week the fact that the Treasury's twelve-year bond issue was oversubscribed nine times was a clear sign to some Wall Streeters that it is. To the surprise of the Treasury, there were $4.6 billion worth of takers for the $500 million in long-term bonds, with the result that large investors had to be rationed to 10% of their requests. Only three months ago former Treasury Secretary George Humphrey told the Senate Finance Committee that he doubted whether the Government could sell a long-term bond. Having done so, and at a price in line...
...Reformation was an age of flame, lit both by candles and by faggots, by holiness and horror. Materialist-minded historians have no trouble tracing economic pressures and class struggles in the Reformation, yet it remains above all a conflict of faith, fought at a time when that weak substitute term "ideology" had not yet been coined-the greatest and (in the words of Roman Catholic Historian Philip Hughes) the world's "first purely theological battle...