Word: basically
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...scheduled for hearings this week. The Fur & Leather Workers would get the business in June-so would the United Furniture Workers unless a right-wing faction was successful in gaining control. After that the C.I.O. would be able to boast that it had done almost everything to preserve the "basic American trade union objectives" except to order George M. Cohan music on its picket lines...
...points meant not only an end of coupon headaches but a saving for the Ministry itself, which had employed more than 1,000 clerks to keep track of the points. The change did not, however, mean the end of all rationing. Such basic foods as meat, fats, bacon, cheese, tea, sugar and sweets were still rationed. The fair distribution of everything else was up to the food sellers...
...through a large telescope, Mars looks like a small reddish disc doing a slightly hysterical dance. But delicate instruments can measure with fair accuracy on its barren surface the temperature of spots as small as 400 miles wide. Since differences of temperature (which make an atmosphere circulate) are the basic cause of weather, measurements of temperature can be translated into a crude weather...
Poring over performance charts some 60 hours a week, Campbell assigns the weights for 40-odd stake races, and about 80 overnight handicaps-in addition to writing the condition books (i.e., the daily racing programs)-for the four New York tracks. On the basic principle that three pounds of weight equals one length in a mile race (with due allowance for individual horses' ability to carry weight) his figures aim to produce dead heats or at least photo-finishes in every handicap race...
...death penalty falls for the most part on obscure, impoverished, friendless or defective individuals and rarely on the well-to-do and educated. The church believes that each individual is sacred as a child of God, and that to legalize the killing of an offender is to deny the basic Christian doctrines of forgiveness of sin and the power of redemption, and that mercy is a Christian duty...