Word: bureaus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chain-smoking Wu Leng-hsi. who reportedly lost an eye fighting during the civil war. Wu is also director of the government's Hsinhua News Agency ("the ear and mouth of the Party. Government and People"), which is closely allied to People's Daily, has 31 bureaus in China and 23 overseas, e.g.. Geneva. London, Paris...
Slight, pink-cheeked Robert E. Gross, board chairman of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. (prime contractor on the Navy Polaris), registered the common complaint that Government agencies, bureaus, committees, staffs and boards interfere with quick and able decisionmaking. Contractors, he declared, are "bogged down in a labyrinth of advisers advising advisers ... We are often 'helped to death' by the hierarchy of Government agencies." Conflict-of-interest statutes defeat the Government's opportunities to hire the most able civilians for key posts. "We really cannot ask people to come down to Washington as experts for a problem as long...
...people everywhere," the Monitor maintains "a steady flow of dispatches designed to pierce the fog of confusion and the dictates of prejudice." has won 89 journalistic awards-most of them, including a 1950 Pulitzer for Edmund Stevens' reporting on Russia, for its international coverage. With seven "overseas" bureaus -the Monitor considers "foreign" a derogatory word-it has one of the best-seasoned corps of foreign correspondents in the business. Explains British-born, 25-year London Staffer John May: "What I write, they print-and for almost any newspaperman, this is a consummation devoutly to be wished for and less...
...brasshatted bungling. Best-informed and most influential military publication in the U.S., it is studied closely from Capitol Hill to the White House (where 34-year Subscriber Eisenhower's copy* comes every Friday through the mail), from far-flung foreign bases to Washington's wire-service bureaus, which cull frequent stories from the Journal and label them "authoritative." Because the Journal has high-echelon readership (56% of its subscribers rank above Army captain) and high standards of accuracy, the Pentagon snaps smartly to attention when it barks. Examples...
Boston's Better Business Bureau, however, has cast doubt on this. Although "Shoppers' Guide" is not registered with them, the office knows quite a bit about its activities. "Bureaus all over the country have had difficulty with this type of promotion," a Better Business Bureau spokesman said yesterday...