Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heartening to know, and I will frankly admit I never knew, that so many leading American companies have such excellent programs for rehabilitating alcoholics and that they are making a success of it. However, I feel that they are dealing with the effects. They should put forth the same amount of time and effort to remove the cause-provided that our churches wake up and help them as they should...
...must walk the tightrope between sufficient defense and national extravagance; McElroy's own nature is such that he could, without batting an eye, decide to spend $30 million for Procter & Gamble to buy Clorox, yet at home in Cincinnati he long kept close personal tabs on the amount of gasoline his daughters bought...
...universities and colleges that are always crying for more money cut out 85% of the education courses and 98% of the journalism courses, they would save an enormous amount of money and at the same time advance knowledge. Of course, howls going up would make the mountaintops rock. The superfluous always howl when their milk is cut off. For the academic year of 1957-58, the education department of the University of Texas lists 351 courses. They are all to make teachers more banal-minded. God pity your pupils; don't blame them for not being educated. What...
...synthesis of such a diversity of subjective and objective elements, however, is only partially successful. The rhythm and consistently gaunt imagery give the poem a great amount of tonal unity, but there is little development toward the identity of the artist with his environment that the last stanza professes him to have achieved. Granted the painter may have felt this identity, but it is still up to the poem to help the reader partake of the process. But it's too static and remains as a whole nebulous and gray. Despite its other virtues, there is little light and color...
...divided into studies of basic-management principles, organization-building, planning and controlling, and appraisal of operational performance. They include a deadly earnest game in which five teams of executives battle to win shares of a mythical common market. Like an adult Monopoly, the game allows each team a certain amount of money, gives each team a chance to increase its take by making decisions on such problems as advertising, promotion, distribution, etc., scores performances with an electronic computer. Cost for the two-week course: $960. Last year A.M.A. put 80,000 executives through their paces, even gave full-course graduates...