Word: cafeteria
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...visiting Jewish militiamen during Passover, cabled his representatives at U.N. to accept a truce for Jerusalem's Old City. But most of the U.N. debate was still concerned with procedural issues. Between meetings, the delegates of the 58 nations sent their assistants to the newsstand in the U.N. cafeteria to buy the latest editions of the newspapers, to find out what else had happened in Palestine...
...continuing, therefore, on the piecemeal method of improvement as the criticisms pick out one item on the menu after another, a professional investigation and recommendations should be sought to attack the problem at its root: the lack of efficiency in preparing and serving meals in the so-called temporary cafeteria style...
...outside efficiency expert would obviously not be hailed with joy. However, such an investigation should not be considered as deprecatory to their considerable achievements. It should be realized that most of them have been trained in the pre-war system of individual waitress service, and the present cafeteria system is completely different. It is a system for which they were not trained, and consequently the change has not been adequately carried...
...pollsters' jargon, that breaks down into such specific problems as how to get around the "prestige answer" (what the "respondent" thinks he ought to think) and how to evaluate the "intensity factor" (how strongly the "respondent" feels about it). To solve such difficulties Pollster Roper has developed the "cafeteria" question, which gives a choice of answers from soup to nuts. Pollster Gallup has developed a system called the "quintamensional plan of question design," which measures not only the yes & no, but also the "respondent's" knowledge and his reasons for & against any issue...
After the first World War, when horse-drawn trolleys were finally junked, the building was purchased by several businessmen and completely rebuilt into a large cafeteria. Its present pale-red shutters and rusty-iron awning belie the former elegance of an eating place that fed over 2000 people...