Word: build
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Minneapolis' Walker Art Center. While studying museum organization and finances on a two-year Rockefeller Foundation grant, Van der Marck realized that the early success of institutions like Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art was based on their exhibitions long before they had a chance to build up their permanent collections. Van der Marck intends to follow suit. "I think of a museum as a place of experiment, a proving and testing ground, a laboratory," he says. "I want to show what is living in the minds of artists today...
B.M.C., which claims that the Japanese cars are poorly trimmed and underpowered, has fought Honda's efforts to establish a dealership network. Says Lester Suffield, B.M.C.'s deputy managing director in charge of sales: "Of course we are getting tough. It has taken us 50 years to build up our sales network, and we don't intend to give one inch on this vital issue." Especially grating is the fact that the little Japanese cars coming into Britain pay a 22% duty, while mini-size cars entering Japan...
...British shipbuilders able to handle the mammoth tankers that are becoming a key to the industry's survival. Two Esso tankers, 240,000 tons each, bigger than any ship ever built in Britain, will go up in their yards. Belfast's Harland & Wolff will build two more, at a price of $73 million for the four...
...keep knocking on the administration's door? I hope not, because if we do, they'll just keep listening to us and never open it up." There is talk about setting up a student group to study educational policy independent of the administration. The group would try to build student activism around its proposals...
...course of the impromptu discussion of tactics, the rationale for the sit-in was defined. "Just as we would not allow Nazis to come here to ask people to go build gas chambers, we should not let Dow recruit," Ansara said...