Word: asset
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Neill charged that current attempts by the city to condemn the Yards under the Urban Renewal Act was "just a political situation." It could be cleared up, he explained, when "thinking people realize that whether you call it an industry or not, education is the most important asset of our economy...
...Bank. In 1938, Mills ran for the House of Representatives. He learned to hunker on the court house steps, to roll his own Bull Durham cigarettes, and to chaw tobacco without turning green (at least until he got out of the sight of the donor). He had another campaign asset in the comely person of his wife Clarine ("Polly"), whom he still describes as "the best handshaker a man ever married." Mills won easily, and by 1952 had become such a personage that Kensett's citizens proudly put up a sign at the town limits: "Home of Congressman Wilbur...
...bylines - Eleanor Roosevelt, Political Scientist Leo Rosten, U.S. President-to-be John F. Kennedy, who exhorted televiewers to demand more honesty in TV political coverage - in a deliberate campaign to gild Guide's public image. But TV Guide's earned reputation for accurate listings remains its prime asset...
TIME has indeed amassed an impressive list of failures for Mr. Kennedy. His chief asset seems to be that he is willing to learn from his mistakes. I hope we survive this year's "learning process...
Magazines that try to compete with TV's wholesale approach, argued Cone, may be overlooking an important-and distinctive-asset of their own: "the fact of selectivity." Cone learned this fact for himself years ago. as a promotion man in San Francisco, when he managed to secure a copy of TIME'S subscription lists for the city. "I then copied off the names and addresses of every subscriber who was listed on either Vallejo Street or Broadway or Pacific Avenue"-three streets that passed through some of San Francisco's seamier neighborhoods and out into "the city...