Word: uncleared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oratorical fireworks, mostly Southern protests, before a packed and tense chamber. Finally the Senate tossed the parliamentary puzzle-Rule 14 or Rule 25?-to Vice President Richard Nixon. Ruled Nixon, following a line laid out by New Jersey's scholarly Republican Clifford Case: since the precedents were unclear, it was up to the Senate to decide by vote whether to refer the bill to committee or place it directly on the calendar...
...Vannevar Bush, an old Pentagon hand, and Distinguished Citizen Nelson A. Rockefeller; they thought that Wilson ought to save money and step up efficiency by making some sort of single service out of the Army, Navy and Air Force. Astern of Wilson even the signals from the flagship were unclear after Dwight Eisenhower said that tighter interservice unification perhaps could produce "considerable" savings, even though the present budget was "a bare minimum...
...Common Market Treaty plans to eliminate all tariff walls and erect a common rate among its signing nations. To further this common economic endeavor, a second treaty, "Euratom," will set about overhauling Europe's industrial power, replacing by 1967 present coal and oil energy with 15 million kilowatts of unclear power. While the Common Market Treaty will produce tensions and stresses when attempted (Germans are already complaining about their disproportionate contribution to proposed French West African development), Euratom is the more ambitious of the two projects...
...Euratom nations are expected to outstrip Britain, Russia, and ourselves in nuclear power development. The fast-moving Europeans will quickly establish a system in which our own unclear inventions and schemes can be tested. We are providing one half of the reactors and will observe, from Euratom's experiments, what techniques U.S. industry can adopt...
...early music, but the Chorus did not use enough. The impression was not that they were making a deliberate attempt to sing with great reserve, but rather that little careful thought had been given to the matter of dynamics. Intonation was not always precise, and contrapuntal passages were occasionally unclear...