Word: medium
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Tubman has eagerly thrown his country open to foreign investment, which he much prefers to gifts or loans ("That old Scriptural saying that a borrower is servant unto the lender holds true in every instance"). With a generous tax policy and no currency restrictions-the U.S. dollar is the medium of exchange-Liberia has attracted more than $120 million in foreign capital. The Italians are building roads, the West Germans are helping to develop a new port along the southern coast, and the Israelis are putting up a new hospital, hotel, treasury building and executive mansion. Goodrich is planting...
...medium that once saw Bishop Sheen and Arthur Godfrey nominated for the same award ("Outstanding Personality of the Year") had changed not a bit. The academy this time managed to match lightfooted Fred Astaire with Actor Christopher Plummer and 14-year-old Robert Crawford in the race for "Best Single Performance by an Actor." Winner: Hoofer Astaire. (Astaire also won eight other awards, exactly 27 lbs. of Emmys, all for his memorable song-and-dance show last October.) The catalogue of categories seemed endless. On and on it went, until one irritated critic was moved to ask: "Is there...
...provide undergraduates with a medium for free, creative expression," to "bring to a new audience . . .," "to suggest the way toward controversy . . .," and with each such credo the great Hindu Wheel turns ever so slightly on its axis and Wisdom Incarnate emerges in the form of a new publication around Harvard Square...
...pulled together into two big "North" and "South" industrial units, composed of such famous firms as Heinkel, Messerschmitt and Dornier. The government has already awarded them contracts to make 200 F-104s and other foreign planes under license. A Krupp subsidiary, "Weser" Flugzeugbau, has been commissioned to design a medium-range transport. In March, Strauss's Defense Ministry parceled out $520 million in military spending, five times the average of any preceding month...
Even dailies of medium circulation, least pinched by the cost-income claw, are finding it increasingly tough to stay in the black ink. In a study of a "typical" daily of 50,000 circulation. Editor & Publisher found revenue up 25.61% in the last decade, costs up 39.57%-and net profit down 58.24% (see chart...