Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...that, Pinay is by common consent De Gaulle's most effective minister. Executing plans drawn up by Economic Braintruster Jacques Rueff, he carried through-without the usual rapid and disastrous rise in prices-the devaluation that gave the franc a strength it had not enjoyed in international markets since 1936. Introducing economic liberalism into France's closed economy, he made the franc convertible, hacked away at government subsidies, even persuaded French business to abandon its traditional protectionism and go wholeheartedly into the Common Market. Heartened by the knowledge that Pinay was at the helm, wealthy Frenchmen repatriated massive...
...Question. He paid his own symbolic tribute to the Resistance in his second novel, The Plague, but the book, as Camus noted, was also his most antiChristian. Its theme was man's common struggle to fight evil "without lifting our eyes towards the Heavens where God stays silent." As one character puts it, "Can one become a saint without God?" The question was to be asked in 17 different languages and Camus found himself famous...
Dramatic accounts of heroic emergency measures undertaken when a patient's heart stops in the middle of an operation, usually because of some condition unrelated to the heart, are becoming commonplace-too common, in the opinion of Surgeon William E. Bomar Jr. of Greenville, S.C. In the A.M.A. Journal...
...dispossessed portraits will probably find new homes in the private dining room, in the new lobby, or in the Junior and Senior Common Rooms, according to John J. Conway, Master of Leverett House...
...convert her preferred into 905,314 shares of common, giving her 1,005,431 shares in all. (There are now 5.200,000 shares outstanding, plus war rants and preferred shares that can convert into another 8,200,000 of common.) Furthermore, Mrs. Young admires the business abilities of Millionaire Sonnabend (Hotel Corp. of America; Botany Industries, Inc.), who says he controls 700,000 shares. If they ally, the Young-Sonnabend total of some 1,700,000 shares could outvote Kirby's potential of 1,524,000 (he now controls 524,200 shares of common, has warrants and preferred that...