Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Although less than 5% of all autos involved usually turn out to be defective, such recalls underscore the fact that Detroit's quality control is not all that it might be. Says G.M. Chairman James M. Roche: "We'd be the first to admit that a better job can be done...
...twice the size of California. Because of federal limitations on logging operations and poor forest management techniques, the Government's holdings yield only a quarter as much timber per acre as private timberland. The Agriculture Department has long complained that Congress allows it too little money to manage better, even though the sale of timber to private lumber producers nets the Treasury substantial revenue. A lack of access roads causes as much sawtimber to be lost to storms and insect infestation as is harvested from national forests. Meanwhile, heavy opposition from conservationists makes any expansion of logging politically difficult...
...every major language-except that of cinema. Orson Welles' film version of The Trial failed to crack the surface of bureaucratic terror and reveal the author's psychological insights. German Director Rudolf Noelte's adaptation of The Castle, Kafka's last, incomplete parable, fares little better...
...result reads like a combination for an IBM ad in the CRIMSON and Reader's Digest's "From the Campus" section, all the better. They're not going to know it in Des Moines and they're not going to buy it anywhere else. The three Harvard graduates who will gather in the sheckles from this adventure into Madison Avenue conjure up one Ivy stereotype after another, blow on it with their windy wit, and leave it. In the face of unsubtle attempts to infuse rewrites of admissions booklets with local color--paint it whitewash--all of the eight...
...closer to the majority than mine. However, I think it's disturbing that President Pusey is beginning to preserve "the University's freedom from outside interference or control" ("Information About Harvard") by equating the interests of Harvard with those of the government. The president of Harvard would do better by trying keep Harvard free, rather than cooperative with Washington: in relation to the ROTC issue, there is a definite conflict. Bob Reitherman...