Word: assigned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Employees will work on a flat rate plus commission basis, while the manager may assign his own salary with little restriction as long as "he is not piggy," Harpel said. "I think this can be something really big," he added. "It's possible that the HSA's volume may reach $500,000 a year. The corporation is young, but it's just beginning to feel its power...
...freedom may be illogical if it does not exercise due restraint. The customer, I suspect, may be approximately right." ¶ "Most publishers need education in editorial matters. The editorial costs of a newspaper range from 5% to 10% of the total and so the average publisher is likely to assign them to the lower categories-except when it comes to cutting the budget, in which case he is apt to turn first to trimming the editorial items. A campaign of enlightenment seems in order...
...film scores have become big sellers on the pop market. The change was foreshadowed by The Third Man theme and by Dimitri Tiomkin's High Noon; both tunes were dramatically part of the movies whose titles they bore, but also became huge independent hits. Nowadays a producer may assign a composer to do a title tune even before he casts the leading roles or raises all his money. Even mere accompaniment scores without notable single tunes are selling on LPs. Currently there are more than 200 movie LPs, and record men are unreeling more as fast as they...
Says Germany's veteran Rocketeer Rolf Engel, who has known Von Braun since 1928: "He is a human leader whose eyes and thoughts have always been turned toward the stars. It would be foolish to assign rocketry success to one person totally. Components must necessarily be the work of many minds; so must successive stages of development. But because Wernher von Braun joins technical ability, passionate optimism, immense experience and uncanny organizing ability in the elusive power to create a team, he is the greatest human element behind today's rocketry success...
...strategic balance in the cold war's battle of the laboratories, 2) cut down the crucial "lead time" in which new weapons are brought from drawing board to operational capability. "Providing we apply [this technological base] with a clear sense of direction, [it] should enable us to assign high priority to a greater variety of projects than the U.S.S.R...