Word: assets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...case, wrote Dr. Whitton: "If these babies are suitable for adoption, they are a valuable national asset and the whole Alberta policy is puzzling; if they are not suitable for placement, it is a dastardly thing to send them to foster homes in a friendly neighboring country." Her suggested remedy: recasting of Alberta's Child Welfare Act to reduce the "unjustifiable powers" of province officials...
This meant that Indonesia would once again be plunged into a war of white men against brown men. The Dutch now had an asset they lacked when the first campaign ended: a well-equipped army of 100,000. On their side the Indonesians had 200,000 soldiers, poorly equipped. Time, and a world opinion that frowns on colonial wars, was also on the Indonesian side. In a radio broadcast, Indonesian President Soekarno asked for United Nations intervention...
...washed-up as any big leaguer could be: the last-place Philadelphia A's had given him an unconditional release. Now, besides being the best fielding first-baseman in baseball, McQuinn was just shy of Joe DiMaggio's .339 batting average. Harris also had a prize asset in Pitcher Frank Shea, a 24-year-old rookie, the cutup of the Yanks' locker room. As of last week, he was the league's top pitcher. His record: 11 wins, 2 defeats...
...eccentricity or the possession of a gnawing fear is not necessarily a handicap; it may be an asset. Dr. Earl D. Bond, a University of Pennsylvania psychiatry professor, assured a convention of insurance doctors in Asheville, N.C. that "normal" people are not very "interesting''; they don't even seem to be entirely human. Other Bond findings...
Some companies particularly the larger ones will request men from their "top third of their class," but very few of them adhere to this specification. Teele declares. "This is not to say, however, that all average isn't a desirable asset," he hastens...