Word: approach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President. I shall do so this year [but] I cannot let the record rest there . . . The coherence and rationality of the program are so open to question that I am close to the border of opposition ... I hope that the Administration by next year will be able to approach Congress asking authority for foreign aid in positive, rather than negative, terms. Our country will not be able to grasp the initiative until our energies are devoted to promoting freedom...
...Wouk. It's simply the matter of him being built up because he shows respect to so-called hallowed institutions . . . Good novelists better leave the hallowing of sacred institutions to people who get paid to hallow them! Now take Norman Vincent (The Power of Positive Thinking) Peale. His approach is 'How to Get Rich Through Prayer!' . . . The books which bring comfort alone are never good books." Of fickle U.S. literary critics, many of whom spat contemptuously (TIME, May 28) on Algren's uncomforting Wild Side: "They like to think virtue and social status go hand...
...occasion he holds his draftsmen and designers at their drafting tables straight through the night, is so prodigal with money for research that he recently spent $12,000 to win a competition that guaranteed only $4,000 in expenses. But judged by the results, Saarinen's total approach pays off. His work has won the applause of the glass and steel purists, yet pleased clients who include small-town bankers, a Midwest Lutheran synod, university presidents, and the giants among U.S. corporations-General Motors, T.W.A., International Business Machines...
...work. He was installed in the White House East Executive Wing, where he studied documents and took exhaustive notes for almost two months. Then he began interviewing some 50 key Administration officials, all of whom had been instructed to speak freely. In all his research he made no approach to two possible sources: Jim Hagerty, whom he saw only twice casually in groups, and President Eisenhower himself...
...union; it never needed one. Watson paid high wages, refused to lay off men even during the depths of the Depression; what he could not sell, he stored away against better days. In return, he exhorted his IBMEN to THINK THINK THINK, demanded loyalty, perseverance, a pioneering approach to each job. Said Watson once: "We don't get paid for working with our feet-we get paid for working with our heads...