Word: interims
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...United States reserved judgment, but said it expects "a satisfactory interim arrangement will be arrived at" during Hammarskjold's talks with top Egyptians...
This week, at the close of a hectic four-month U.N. session, Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold prepared to fly to Cairo to open the next round with the Egyptian dictator. In an interview with an Indian reporter, Nasser confirmed Egypt's veto of an interim proposal put forward through the U.N. last month by the U.S., Britain, France and Norway. By this plan, 50% of canal tolls would be paid to Egypt, the rest to some such neutral agency as the World Bank, to be held in escrow for repaying the original owners of the confiscated canal company. Instead...
Last fall 31 Harvard experts began their work, and were appalled at what they found. They were so alarmed that they issued an emergency interim report on safety alone. The report was a shocker: of the city's 23 school buildings, the Harvardmen said, 14 were so dangerous that they should be closed...
...Harvard Foundation for Advanced Study and Research, for example, can allocate no more than $10,000 annually to finance original work, much of which is rendered fragmentary by the interim nature of the Foundation's grants. Small departmental funds exist, varying widely in their limitations and availability. A few funds, like the Belknap bequest to the Harvard University Press, render significant services in aiding occasional research projects, but no coordinated machinery exists for aiding Harvard work on the frontiers of knowledge...
...Last week, except for the fact that his astrologers had declared the moment auspicious (11:15 a.m., March 1), nobody knew just why U Nu had chosen to take power again. But when U Nu gave the word, the Burmese Parliament without a dissenting vote accepted the resignation of interim Premier U Ba Swe and named U Nu in his place...