Word: proportionately
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Savings were expected to average 50%. Sample differences in wholesale prices: Dexedrine, $2.65 per 100 v. dextroamphetamine, 44?; Rubramin, $3.33 per 100 v. vitamin B12, $1.85; Pentids, $1.27 for twelve tablets v. buffered penicillin G, $2.75 per 100. Retail prices would be in about the same proportion. All drugs sold...
Put in its now classic form, Parkinson's Law (TIME, Oct. 28, 1957) holds that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion," ergo, an organization's personnel mushrooms faster than mushrooms. In his earlier book, Author Parkinson also bantered entertainingly on how to...
Was your cinema critic perhaps a bit severe in calling Dimitri Tiomkin "probably the world's loudest composer" and stating that his music for the documentary film, Rhapsody of Steel, "bangs away on the sound track like a trip hammer" [Feb. 1]? Actually, the music for Rhapsody of Steel...
Though Ireland is a relative newcomer to the U.N. (1955) and has one of the smallest delegations, it has made a name" for itself out of all proportion to its size. Boland arrived at the U.N. just before Suez and Hungary shocked the world. On Suez, Ireland voted against France...
Reduction in the overall number of staph infections picked up by patients after they got to the hospital was slight, Dr. Barber concedes in the British Medical Journal, but in little more than a year two notable gains were chalked up: the severity of the infections declined, and the proportion...