Word: pyramidal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Which now includes a Deputy Secretary, eight Assistant Secretaries, a general counsel, ten Deputy Assistant Secretaries, four Special Assistant Secretaries and 23 "staff directors" atop a pyramid of 2,362 people...
...Debt Pyramid. At first, Menderes' development program had nothing but happy results. Acreage under cultivation doubled. In 1953, when good weather gave it the biggest wheat crop in history -8,200,000 tons v. 3,800,000 in 1950-Turkey became for the first time a substantial exporter of wheat. The once arid Anatolian plateau was dotted with green fields and bustling communities, and the cotton-producing areas of southern Turkey experienced a new prosperity. Turkey's sugar production, which nearly trebled between 1950 and 1956, was barely able to keep pace with domestic demand. Reason: the Turkish...
...such as West Germany's three-wheeled Heinkels and Messerschmitts, which needle through traffic like grown-up scooters, can be parked head-on to the curb in only a 5-ft.-wide space. One of the bestselling of the gnatty new bug cars is Bavarian Motor Works' pyramid-shaped Isetta 300 (price: $1,048 and up), which has moved into more than 2,500 American garages this year. The Isetta has two widely spaced front wheels and two narrowly spaced rear wheels, speeds up to 62 m.p.h. on a 13-h.p. motorcycle engine, can accommodate two passengers...
...individual tutorial system, the Committee's recommendations for a rigid system of academic advancement meant that there would be fewer tutors, and, in that sense, the grand beginnings of tutorial were destroyed. The Committee, nevertheless, did perform the necessary function of reducing the base of the academic pyramid, which had swollen out of all proportion to the number of permanent appointments at the apex...
...Cologne's Architect Wilhelm Riphahn, 67, solved the problem of cramped space in a bombed-out lot close to Cologne's twin-spired cathedral by erecting a structure shaped approximately like an Aztec pyramid. The massive, $3,800,000 Cologne Opera House, due to open this May, devotes two-thirds of its interior space to the stage and storage areas (five stage settings can be erected at one time), seats 1,386 in the horseshoe orchestra floor and ring of bobsled-shaped boxes...