Word: behinds
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...matter is that there is almost nothing which is more positive than fiscal soundness." Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr.. also appearing before the Joint Congressional Economic Committee, bluntly warned that there was "never a more important time than now" for balancing the budget. Behind Martin's words: the U.S. Treasury Department's discovery that investors' fears of deficit and inflation are making it increasingly difficult to refinance the huge Government debt even at high interest rates (see BUSINESS...
Forward in the cockpit, Captain Albert H. DeWitt, 59, wheeled the big Electra on a lazy clockwise arc into LaGuardia's landing pattern, took position two minutes behind a Northeast Airlines DC-3, got his instructions from the LaGuardia tower. The weather was foul - a 400-ft. ceiling, two-mile visibility, wind eight miles an hour, freezing rain-but hardly challenging to a 28,000-hour veteran (40 hours in Electras) like DeWitt. Neither was the approach from the northeast over the East River through LaGuardia's "back door." The back door's runway 22 was equipped...
There are two main purposes behind the venture, Revie said. The first is to "give our commercial pilots more to do;" the second, to "improve the name of the Harvard Flying Club, to remove the idea that we're nothing but a playboy organization...
There are certain works of art, like the two portraits of Baudelaire in the exhibition, (a lithograph by Rouault and an etching by Manet), which sum up the pleasure of collecting. Perhaps motives of sentiment lie behind these choices as well as aesthetic discretion. This is perfectly legitimate. Rouault and Les Fleur du Mal strike a rich chord. It is just this sort of thing which lends collecting an added charm...
...Behind this report, of course, is the idea that responsible Americans of the future will have to make important decisions involved with the complexity of modern life, and since science plays such a decisive role in this complex, it follows that educated men should know something about science. Unfortunately, however, there is a major difference between science and a field such as Comparative Literature--a difference of language. Whereas any intelligent person who has a certain facility with words can understand the weighty sentences of the expert in Comp. Lit., the same is not true in general of science. Indeed...