Word: assets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Second, the man should enhance his ability to express his ideas both orally and in writing. He learns to put forward his own ideas and to defend them against the attacks of fellow students or the intellectual assault by his instructors. Skill in these respects is no small asset in business...
...Defense Command also wants the Voodoo. Present interceptors can only stay at bomber altitude for seconds, make one pass and come back. The big Voodoos can stay at high altitudes for hours, attacking again and again. Altitude, stamina and a storehouse of weapons have replaced maneuverability as the big asset of an interceptor...
...taking the step in the face of extraordinary financial pressure brought on by rising costs and an income which has risen at a much slower rate," Dodds stated. "Our faculty is our greatest asset and its members must not be asked to shoulder the whole burden...
Frittering Away. Scrupulous to avoid any show of interference, U.S. diplomatic officials watched in helpless silence last week as the squabbling Vietnamese frittered away the few months' pre-election "breathing space" that was the only asset anyone in the non-Communist world could claim for the Geneva settlement. But Montana's able Senator Mike Mansfield, returning from a two-month survey of Indo-China, said publicly what officials could only mutter privately...
Radishes with Butter. Mendes was overjoyed. Before him lay the prospect that soon he might head the strongest and most effective coalition in the history of the Fourth Republic. His strongest single asset was his growing popularity among the most forgotten people in French politics: ordinary citizens. Opening a school here, laying a cornerstone there, Mendes was dramatizing his "New Deal" in glowing phrases. A sample: "The wind is rising, morning is here, we are at the dawn of a new France." With the French people aroused and behind him, he hopes to bend the quarreling politicians to his will...