Word: branching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time he became a French colonial treasury clerk in his own country, but his real interests were something else. When the treasury tried to muffle his shrill union talk by sending him to a post outside the country, he quit and became fulltime head of the Guinea branch of France's Confederation Generale du Travail. French officials have vivid memories of the Toure of those days. "He was impossible," says one. "Always making trouble...
Science is trapped between these extremes, and the way out is not apparent. It is obviously desirable, given the existence of science as an historical fact, that it be respected as a genuine intellectual activity of considerable proportion, and it is possible that really intense, interesting courses exploring some branch of science might help in this direction...
...supplement the current historically oriented science instruction in General Education, the committee, chaired by Jerome S. Bruner, professor of Psychology, recommended that new Natural Science courses be instituted which will explore in considerable details a special aspect of some branch of science. According to the committee, a sub-committee of the C.E.P. these courses should "(1) communicate a knowledge of the fundamental principles of a special science and (2) give the student an idea of the methods of science as they are known today...
Bourguiba has become, in many senses, a prisoner of his Algerian guests. He has allowed them to establish supply depots, training camps, mutual-aid societies everywhere, and in the process the Algerians have infiltrated every branch of Tunisian administration. Bourguiba sees himself as a mediator between the French and the Algerians, but finds no takers. Says harassed Habib Bourguiba of his own land, with more truth than immodesty: "A stray bullet may kill me and the country would be plunged into anarchy...
...cost to clear out inventories, get cash in the till quickly. He streamlined the company by merging the Ferguson and Massey-Harris distribution systems, which often competed with each other, into the new Massey-Ferguson Ltd. He put in tight inventory controls, raised salaries and bonuses of salesmen and branch managers to give them more incentive, brought in a crack young management team to push sales...