Word: attract
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attract more students to family doctoring, the American College of General Practice hopes to restore the dignity of the general practitioner by making him a kind of specialist himself-a "generalist" is one term proposed. To gain accreditation from the college, a "generalist" would be required to take residency-internship training in family practice for three years, encouraged to work with outside doctors in family practice, and get added training in sociology and psychology. "Family doctoring is a more complex field than anyone gives it credit for, since it encompasses a whole range of intellectual, medical and nonmedical problems," insists...
...sufficient revenues to cover its outlays." Almost all of the rest goes to the owners of American business-millions of ordinary Americans, who last year collected $18.9 billion in dividends-or is plowed back by business for expansion, modernization, automation and research. Business must be profitable in order to attract investors to put up still more risk capital. Such high-profit industries as electronics and office equipment find it much easier to get capital than such low-profit industries as textiles and steel. Says Shell Oil President Richard McCurdy: "We have to earn profit to generate money...
Wilson is the first to hold the Briggs-Copeland Lectureship, instituted this year to attract new writers to Harvard. Engel said that one or more identical appointments may be made...
...representatives suggested an immediate walk-out, but Keaty insisted that to abandon the patients would attract unfavorable publicity and allenate uncommitted employees. Instead, he advised pulling out non-essential workers, such as porters and kitchen employees, to fore the hospital to bring in expensive catering and housecleaning contractors...
...Curtis Publishing Co., which suffered a 1965 net loss of $3.5 million, edged into the black, with first-quarter profits of $251,000, and President John M. Clifford embarked on a corporate talent hunt. Said Clifford: "We intend to attract and hire new people with demonstrated ability who can add depth to our management...