Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Personnel Procurement and Training, said that the A.F.R.O.T.C. program is "the least flexible of our officer-procurement programs," since changes in Air Force strength in recent years have "been established in hours or at most a few months." To change the role of college programs to produce the bulk of the Air Force's career officers will require many corrections by all, said Hopwood. Then he proceeded to hit some Air Force beefs. Last year 15% of the Air Force's college R.O.T.C. units turned out only 218 of the 4,000 required officers; yet these colleges were...
...also consider reducing the basic compulsory two-year program to one year, and cutting down the number of participating schools. But the Air Force has no intention of dropping the program. "Today," said Hopwood, "the R.O.T.C. has become really a C.O.T.C.-Career Officer Training Corps-the source for the bulk of our active-duty officers...
Another major stone in the structure of international rule by law must be a body of international law adapted to the changing needs of today's world. There are dozens of countries which have attained their independence since the bulk of existing international law was evolved...
...ethnarch made one campaign speech condemning "modern hypocrites and Pharisees," and said loftily, "I am the least interested man in these elections." Makarios knew he would finish well out front. The bulk of Loser Clerides' strength was Communist. In the elections for Cyprus' first Parliament, to take place within the next month, the Communists are likely to stand as the only important opposition voice on the island...
When the subcommittee asked Merck & Co.'s President John T. Connor for an explanation, he was well prepared. The big companies, said he have different selling costs for individual sales and bulk sales to Government, could not stay in business if they sold to everybody at the same price. Connor turned out to be such an expert witness that Kefauver complained : "Every time I ask you a question you start reading." Replied Connor, who had 22 assistants with him and had spent six months getting ready to testify: "I thought I would do you the honor of coming well...