Word: branch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Today, the eyes of all people are truly upon us-and our Government, in every branch, at every level, must be as a city upon a hill...
...eleven psychiatrists and the psycho-social research unit will have "the most extensive facilities of any such group in the U.S.," Dr. Farnsworth pointed out. "Does this mean Harvard students are whackier than any others? No, it just means we place more emphasis than anyone else in this branch of medicine...
...great new market almost as vast (pop. 170 million) as the U.S., the European Economic Community is already on its way to becoming a powerful competitor in international trade. Already, the Six do 24.5% of world trade. Last year U.S. firms poured a record $300 million into branch plants inside its walls, partly to get in on the ground floor of the European market itself, but also to get the benefit of the Community's advantages in competing for export markets elsewhere. Chief advantage is wage costs, which are less than a third of the U.S.'s. Average...
...trustworthy as sales clerks, and stopped giving out sales receipts, which most stores demand before they will take merchandise back from a customer. Now, as long as an article bears the M. & S. special St. Michael brand name (commemorating his father), it is easily exchanged at any branch. He threw out time clocks, reasoning that it was silly to keep tabs on employees who were only occasionally late, just to catch the few consistently late arrivers whose habits would be known to supervisors anyway. He silenced the jangling bell in employees' canteens that announced when lunch periods were over...
Luxury for All. Sir Simon inherited 70 penny bazaars from his father in 1907, expanded by convincing Britons that his green-and-gold-fronted stores were about the most efficient in the country and had the best bargains. His Marble Arch branch in London makes more money per square foot than any other store in the world, says Sir Simon, even though goods are limited to women's clothes, men's shirts, socks and sweaters, and food specialties. His merchandising credo is to give everyone "a little bit of luxury, to make a factory girl look like...