Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Famed & Obscure. In picking the colleges, the foundation wisely decided to avoid the question of merit. Its list therefore includes every private, four-year institution that emphasizes the liberal arts and sciences and has regional accreditation. Each campus will get a grant that roughly equals last year's payroll for full-time teachers with undergraduate students. The grant must be held intact for ten years, and the interest from it must be used to raise faculty salaries. After ten years the principal of the grant may be spent as the school sees fit. In addition to the $210 million...
...avoid these pitfalls, some companies have adopted what is virtually a conference manager. Standard Oil Co. of California, for example, got worried about the problem about twelve years ago, and put Conference Organizer Lewis Purkey to work on it. Says Purkey: "It took me and my staff three weeks just to find out how many committees we had and what they were supposed to do. We found that we had about 200." Purkey set up stringent rules governing the forming of committees and running of conferences. Now every new committee must have a written outline stating its purposes before...
Watchful Men. First of all, though one-third of the delegates were professional educators, "college professors, who must further train for intellectual leadership much of the product of the schools, and who know also something about why college graduates avoid schoolteaching, were not in evidence." Worse still: the final reports to the conference on the six topics discussed did nothing more than echo an educationist party line...
...question of common-law marriages, we think that Mr. Halberstam has twisted historical facts in order to picture the Mississippi Negro as a person attempting to beat the so-called Twentieth Century Responsibility. Common-law marriages are not a means used by some Southern Negroes to avoid financial and legal responsibilities. Such marriages have their roots in the old slave society of the South and can be understood only in their proper historical context...
...question of common-law marriages, we think that Mr. Halberstam has twisted historical facts in order to picture the Mississippi Negro as a person attempting to beat the so-called Twentieth Century Responsibility. Common-law marriages are not a means used by some Southern Negroes to avoid financial and legal responsibilities. Such marriages have their roots in the old slave society of the South and can be understood only in their proper historical context...