Word: warded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heavily taxed foreign businesses, limited their profits, refused to let even those profits out of the country, and demanded majority control of companies built wholly by foreign money. Western investment was slowly being choked out at the very time that Asia most needed the strength of economic development to ward off Communism...
There is too little space, with offices and consulting rooms pushed into small niches that resemble roomy closets. The location of the rooms also causes difficulty. Long flights of stairs separate the registration desk, offices, and the surgical ward...
...average week in St. Anne's obstetrical ward, UMs give birth to eight infants. Sister Winifred usually advises adoption. Says she: "Not every girl can make it on her own with a baby. Both mother and baby have to go through a lot because some things never can be covered up." When a girl shows maturity and spunk, Sister Winifred sometimes advises her to keep her child. Wrote one such girl last week: "Two years ago, I and my family thought I had ruined my whole life. And here I am with a wonderful husband, a beautiful baby...
...textile maker by buying control of Goodall-Sanford for $7,600,000 (TIME, July 26), is turning back part of the company to the original owners. For an undisclosed sum, Burlington will sell Goodall's Palm Beach clothes subsidiary to a group headed by former Goodall President Elmer Ward...
...superior, could plumb. At moments he can vanish into the character he is portraying like a salamander into stone-or a tiger in the reeds. Said one thoughtful playgoer: "The only other place I've ever seen such a terrifying shift of identity is in a schizophrenic ward. But this man has control of what he's doing. He has the power of total camouflage, like a dweller in the third day of creation." A moviemaker sighed last week: "I thought I'd seen everything, but it looks as if we've got a genius...