Word: approach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York and woolen mills in New England close down, manufactures report that buyers are holding back orders, waiting until the last possible moment to take advantage of price trends. Business men talk of halting production so that an artificially created goods shortage will keep prices up. But this approach makes even less sense than the removal of price controls did last year; for the present reluctance to buy is not based upon a surplus of goods but upon a surplus of the wrong kind of goods. Making liberal allowances for increased raw material and labor costs, the inferior merchandise dumped...
...making a single fly as though possessed, he can get in the tank and row any first-boat man into collapse. His aim, though, is not so much to demonstrate, or "teach"-- Bert feels it is a matter of bringing out what a good man has through a "midwife" approach to coaching. This requires not scorn, or a drive-drive-drive psychology, but rather an incalculable patience and humor with green men who shoot their seat-slide forward too soon, fail to use leg-drive, or put a foot through the bottom of the shell. He will tell a crew...
WASHINGTON, May 5--Harold E. Stassen criticized President Truman's program for Greece and Turkey today as "negative' 'and declared that this country should "develop a positive, constructive approach...
From his exhibitions, movie shorts and lectures, Andy Varipapa earns about $25,000 a year. His advice to the nation's 18 million amateur bowlers: the approach is the most important thing, four even steps with no sudden stop when the ball is released (though he himself, an exception to his own rules, takes five); the arm should swing up as if the bowler were throwing it up to shake hands with someone; the eyes should not be on the pins but on a point at the foul line where the ball will first touch. But there...
Perhaps subsequent meetings will inject ramifications and contradictions to justify your reporter, but he was not able to approach, what was undoubtedly the most powerful and provocative work on the program of the expert Walden String Quartet "untroubled," as Mr. Sessions would have it, "by preconceived notions...