Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Detailed statements on the handling of union funds, with provisions for permitting union members to sue dishonest officers-halting expense-account sprees, "loans," "gifts," and just plain thievery...
Shield & Sword. Last spring, in the wake of Britain's decision to cut its armed forces in half by 1962, the Atlantic Council gave Norstad a formidable task: to prepare an estimate of NATO's force requirements for the next five years, taking into account economic and political pressures for demobilization and the changing relationship between conventional and nuclear strength. It is a measure of Norstad's capacity as a planner that although his report was finished two days before the first Sputnik went up, the conclusions that he reached remain valid. Some of his premises...
Tentative Conclusions. From the specimens examined in Chicago and similar registries in Washington and Los Angeles, Dr. Perlstein has already drawn correlations that will require revision of some long-held ideas. Forceps deliveries, he believes, account for less than 3% of cerebral palsy, although a total of 60% of all cases can be traced to some kind of damage at birth-notably brain hemorrhage and contusions during a difficult delivery, and oxygen starvation (which in its turn may have a multiplicity of causes). About 30% of cerebral palsy is caused, Dr. Perlstein believes, by the mother's illnesses during...
...ROOTS OF AMERICAN COMMUNISM, by Theodore Draper. The first volume of an important history by an ex-Communist who has both the objectivity and the dogged patience to tackle the subject. No joy for the casual reader, it offers a sober account of Communism's lust for power, and of the incredible nonsense involved in Communist theory...
...develop and maintain an environment on a college campus that will encourage independence rather than dependence, curiosity rather than passive acceptance, high standards of thought and conduct instead of "getting by" and keeping out of trouble--one which takes account of whatever is known about the relationship between personality development and optimun intellectual functioning...