Word: approach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know about the profit in the automobile business [April 29], are we going to be treated to revelations on other businesses? May I suggest that you tell us how to bargain with the druggist the next time we need a prescription? When is the best time to approach an attorney for his lowest fee? When does one get the best bargain from his family doctor on the next baby or an emergency operation? Better yet, perhaps a breakdown on the publishing business is in order...
...Their privations nowhere approach those of Asia's (or even some of Europe's) submerged millions-yet the wretchedness of America's poor is accentuated by the opulence of the society that surrounds them. More than 7,500,000 Americans live in rat-infested tenements or tumbledown shacks that are officially-and euphemistically-classified as "dilapidated"; 1,500 U.S. citizens still die yearly from diseases caused by malnutrition; 6,000,000 subsist on free Government surpluses. In today's society, the nation's 11 million functional illiterates are relegated for life to the precarious ranks...
Much of the credit for the change can be chalked up to Publisher Otis Chandler, 38, a fun-loving surfer and weight lifter who took over from his father Norman in 1960 and surprised everybody with his energetic approach to his job. Under his urging, the paper has been noticeably brightened. Page 2 is devoted to capsule summaries of the day's news, with the less important stories getting no further space in the paper-a practice that opens up many more columns for stylishly written news analysis and interpretation. Recently, in an effort to make the paper more...
...turn it into a giant electromagnet. The university intends to keep a careful eye out for pranksters: the student body is famed for its technological wizardry, once welded a trolley to its tracks while it picked up passengers. The ironworkers who put up the Calder had a more practical approach. Said one: "It's no different than putting up a boiler. We like...
...proposals would encourage this more inter-disciplinary approach by reducing (by half) the weight given to generals; by eliminating specifically required related courses; and by substituting a twelve half-course concentration requirement, up to six of which may be in related fields...