Word: control
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Control of BBC is vested in a seven-man board of governors appointed by the King (actually by the Prime Minister). Even under a Labor government, the board has an old school tie atmosphere that filters down through all echelons. BBCmen work hard and enthusiastically for very little money, and the revenue for their modest salaries comes almost entirely from the listening public. Each Briton pays ?1 a year for his radio license fee or ?2 for his TV set. Additional income pours in from BBC's impressive list of publications, which accept advertising even though BBC does...
...George W. Beadle, of California Institute of Technology, for new discoveries in the "genetic control of metabolic processes...
...George K. Strode (as head of the group) for "outstanding achievement in the control of infectious diseases and the education of health personnel throughout the world" by the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation...
...Federal Reserve Board, and notably Board Member M. S. Szymczak, thinks that indirect controls, if wisely and quickly used, can do the job. Szymczak, long a spokesman for moderation in Government attempts to control the economy, said: "The more we can accomplish by means of monetary, credit and fiscal policies . . . the less need there will be for the authoritarian harness of rationing and other direct controls...
Elizabeth Rowan knew how to love. She loved everyone simply for what he was: her husband for a cold, frightened man who dared not risk feeling much for anyone, her sister for a soul-sick shrew who could not control her bad feeling for everyone, her priest for a muddled half-innocent who did not yet know what he really felt about anything except religion. Almost all the people Elizabeth knew dreaded her love as much as they wanted it. Her husband once stormed at her: "I know there are times when it's worse than hating to love...