Word: affections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Basically, there are only so many ways to wait-standing up, sitting down, leaning over, slumping, and lying flat. But customers and patients, applicants and clients, all take a cue from their common mission, find a suitable code. Couples found in adoption-agency reception rooms affect an air of simple good taste (no jewelry other than religious medals), shun cigarettes, hum strains of lullabies every now and then. The same couple, accompanying their college-aged son to the admissions office of a select university, will dress with understated dash (a necklace of wooden, hand-painted beads for her, suede elbow...
...flow of statistics that pour from 14 federal agencies. Despite the proliferation of statistics, no one had ever devised a master plan that would pull them all together, and even the experts were largely left in the dark about how an event in one area of the economy could affect a business or industry in another...
Fears of Regimentation. The new view will make business and Government predictions more accurate, enable a businessman to see how a change in consumer demand, Government spending or taxes will affect his own enterprise, give him a better insight into who are his customers' customers (a notoriously foggy order) and show him where he is missing markets in which his competitors are selling. It enables a paint company, for example, to figure out its sales drop on a $3 billion defense cut in missiles and aircraft. Input-output shows that the aerospace industry uses 0.2450 of paint industry materials...
...Nothing that's going to affect property values, I hope...
...publicized channel for such initiative. In addition, last year, the HCUA failed to name the chairman for this year's drive until shortly before summer vacation. Consequently, most students had left Cambridge before the Committee began its work of research and selection and thus had little chance to affect the choice...