Word: assets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower implements his proposal, security will be the only asset left to the civil service. It occurs to us that security, while an estimable precept, is scarcely sufficient to draw "the right kind" of people into a career where such people are definitely needed...
...assesses many of his military contemporaries, including the three U.S. generals leading the conflict. Alanbrooke's impressions of Soldier Dwight Eisenhower: "He learned a lot during the war, but strategy, tactics and command were never his strong points." Ike was a great overall coordinator, but "perhaps his greatest asset was a greater share of luck than most of us receive in life." Of George Catlett Marshall: "A big man and a very great gentleman," who did not "impress me by the ability of his brain." Of Douglas MacArthur: "The greatest general of the last war [with] a far greater...
Working on the news board offers a chance to improve the quality and speed of one's writing (a valuable asset on exams and papers) and an opportunity to meet Administration and faculty members...
...drastically in four years than at any other time in U.S. history. He has kept a rein on unnecessary crash programs of weapon development, insisted that if proven new weapons were phased into the defense program, old weapons should be phased out. All the while, Wilson has exercised an asset that was a prime reason for recruiting him. Handling the largest chunk of U.S. budget expenditures, he has gone a long way toward helping the nation get the maximum military strength for its money...
...compromise solution that both businessmen and Government tax lawyers are exploring is a more liberal depreciation rate, which would let any expanding company deduct up to 50% of the cost of any new asset in the first five years. While such a program might not satisfy heavy industries, it would at least ease some of the pressure of increasing obsolescence and spiraling inflation, though some critics argue that it would bring a temporary tax loss for the Government. After a study of tax write-offs, Virginia's Senator Harry F. Byrd, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, says that...