Word: upsetting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Defense Department has upset Navy policy by ordering a year's delay in the construction of a second nuclear-powered aircraft carrier (the first is due for launching in 1961). The Navy will still get funds for beginning design and construction of the second carrier's power plant, but there is no guarantee that it will be able to go on with its carrier-a-year-for-ten-years program. One reason for the switch: the Defense Department is coming to the conclusion that Navy money could be better spent for missile-launching atomic submarines...
...disputed case had stated that "All gas shall be paid for under the seller's rate schedule, or any effective superseding rate schedules on file with the FPC." The appeals court decision means that any superseding schedules, i.e., higher rates not objected to by the FPC, may be upset by a customer's objection. In jeopardy is about $300 million in recent rate increases...
Tonight, if the Crimson can keep its mind off its post-Christmas vacation Ivy League duels, it should avenge last year's upset. A win would tie last year's six-game win streak, the longest for the varsity in a decade...
Canada's new Conservative government, carried into office last summer in a razor's-edge upset victory, moved last week to make good on the brave campaign talk of a $500 million tax cut. In a modest beginning, the Tories proclaimed personal income-tax reductions (effective Jan. 1) amounting to $146 million a year, sprinkled mainly in the lower income brackets...
...started again, Alaskans set up a bipartisan committee, headed by onetime Democratic Governor Ernest Gruening, to argue the case for unlimited exploration. Said Gruening, himself a vociferous conservationist: "The conservation lobbyists who get most upset are those who live in big-city apartments and have not the faintest practical notion of, where the moose like to live...