Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...executive has been with his company for 25 years and worked up through the ranks. Salesmanship is also becoming an ever more complicated exercise in patience, supported by huge amounts of research and strategy; it is not unusual for a salesman to work years to land a new account, and some look back on decade-long campaigns...
...hearing of dire change at their paper, Trib employees are perhaps the least ruffled. "As long as we have Whitney's money, we're all right," says one Trib man. Even at the Telegram, where a reporter was recently bawled out for charging 800 on his expense account for 600 worth of subway trips, some reporters are beginning to roll with the rumors. "I tend to let Zen take care of it," said a young Telegram reporter. "It has so far. When I started here, they were talking merger, and they still are. It's like predicting...
...Qualification Test, which is intended to be a uniform standard. It is not overly difficult ("If 2 erasers cost 6 cents, how many erasers can be bought for 36 cents?"), but some students still argue that draft boards have no right to take any evidence of academic ranking into account as a basis for conscription...
...Jersey withdrawal was a significant sign that scarcer and costlier money-that classic tranquilizer for a souped-up economy-was finally starting to restrain spending. Another sign: the National Industrial Conference Board reported that the nation's 1,000 largest corporations, which account for 75% of business capital spending, are making plans to expand less rapidly than they did a year earlier...
...account for the anticlimax, where sequences build to such banal exchanges as: (Bardot) "If my father saw me in clothes like these!" (Moreau) "Hurry up! We're going to the dance!" Then the beginnings of an exit, such as you get on high-school stages when there's no room in the wings. It's clumsy, and unlike Malle. Some of these scenes might seem less vacuous to French ears deaf to the banal dialogue spoken in English. I suspect that one scene, where some Negro officials sit around sipping tea, is built almost entirely of phrases from English textbooks...