Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even the best prophets have been caught with the seat of their pants down. As late as 1945 and 1946, most business analysts insisted that World War 11, like every other major conflict since Napoleon's day, would be followed by a depression. They failed to take into account the huge backlog of buying power behind bottled-up wartime shortages. Many of them underestimated the 1953 boom; many oversold the 1954 recession. Even in January 1955, as the U.S. hummed into an alltime record year, eight economists at a congressional hearing foresaw only a slight pickup from...
...felt they were fair in what they were doing for all athletes. California offered me $1,600 cash and $50 over and above the allotted $75 permitted by the conference. U.S.C. arranged special entrance examinations for me to get in. They offered to place money in a bank account in my name ... In addition they offered $75 a month over the $75 allowed...
...Moral Code." When the Seattle plotters approached Racketeer Elkins to join them, said the paper's account, the Portland underworldling fell in with the scheme to organize gambling and bootlegging but balked at prostitution ("It's against my moral code"). Fearing that they planned to freeze him out, Elkins took the precaution of "bugging" the Portland apartment of the Seattle emissaries with a microphone hooked to a tape recorder. On the playback he heard them plotting "to get rid of me." Elkins told the Seattle boys about his tapes and threatened to use the recordings to expose...
...characteristics of each pupil. Each pupil's biases, habits and individual eccentricities determine how he should be taught. He may favor his left hand over his right hand, or be able to remember odd numbers better than even ones. An ideal teacher should take all such matters into account and teach accordingly...
...Pask got so interested in the teaching problem that they created an electronic pupil named Eucrates I,* to give the electronic teacher a real workout. Eucrates is electronic but not bright. When not being taught, he is "thinking" in a confused way, and the electronic teacher must take account of his thinking habits. Eucrates follows instructions and observes clues, but is often wrong. If the teacher is too severe or goes too fast, Eucrates shows signs of electronic emotion, equivalent to bursting into tears. Then the electronic teacher is gentle with him until his little dials have stopped quivering...