Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disgust of Ho's father, a scholarly colonial employee who was fired by the French for his "patriotic" activities. After schooling in Hué and Saigon, Ho (then known as Nguyen Tat Thanh) headed for Europe in 1912 as a cabin boy on a French steamer. After a brief apprenticeship at London's Carlton Hotel under the famed chef Escoffier, Ho drifted on to Paris...
While Mrs. Schiff and her fellow publishers bargain for the chance to introduce this kind of computer, the Los Angeles Times, for one, has already moved a step beyond. For a brief period it experimented with machines that allowed reporters to punch out their own tapes as they wrote their stories. The machines rebelled against the reporters' hunt-and-peck typing, and the reporters rebelled against the machines. Now a bank of typists makes tapes from reporters' copy...
Adams came back to his original diary for a brief time late in 1758, and the manuscript for that period includes drafts of a half dozen letters to various friends. Adams had just set up his law practice in Braintree (now Quincy). His first case involved a dispute between tow of his neighbors over some horses breaking through a fence and trampling crops. Adams lost it, and, somewhat dismayed, he wrote a former classmate, in a letter drafted in the diary...
...your Essay [June 25] you have written the story of my life-and the lives of several million Jews! It is truly amazing how an article so simple and relatively brief could capture the full mood and essence of this segment of American society. You have rendered an invaluable service to Jew and Gentile alike...
...brief, Keynes considered purchasing power, or "aggregate demand," to be the most important force in any economy; the best way to maintain high demand, he said, is for the Government to borrow money and pump it into the economy to supplement private investments. Washington has been raising Keynes since New Deal days; in 25 years the budget has been balanced only six times. The anti-Keynesian arguments-notably that the system is bound to lead to Government control of the economy, that it can be inflationary, and that indefinite borrowing is impossible without a day of reckoning sooner or later...