Word: clearers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Juneau lay under a woolly fog that rolled in off the Gastineau Channel, and airplanes carrying Alaska legislators probed in frustrating circles over the capital's airport. Some lawmakers turned to dog sled and Coast Guard cutter, others waited restlessly in clearer areas until the fog lifted, but everybody was on hand last week when the new state's first legislature was gaveled into its second session. Fortuitously, a "Capital-Site Steering Committee" came around with petitions bearing the signatures of 13,000 Alaskans who want the capital moved from fog-plagued Juneau westward to the Fairbanks-Anchorage...
...depth of the crisis became clearer, Parisians began to gather gravely at the newsstands in the winter sunshine. But there was no trouble. Deputy Jean-Marie Le Pen, onetime paratrooper and Poujadist tough boy, called upon Paris students to strike in support of the insurgents, but he was ignored by the students and picked up by the police...
...Jack's bedroom painted orchid pink, he was also seeking city approval of a $30 million slum clearance project-and Hulan Jack, as borough president, held the right of veto. Ungar's project got the green light until early last year, when newspapers identified would-be Slum Clearer Ungar as the owner of some of New York's worst slum housing; later he was denied project sponsorship, and Hulan Jack himself voted against his friend...
...statement of principles drawn up by the local group will be distributed this afternoon in the Union and Houses together with information on the writing of protest letters. In its pronouncement entitled "Write Fiercely, Harvard," the group quotes Senator John F. Kennedy '400 as saying "there must be a clearer and more articulate student voice in the months ahead...
Management can contribute to a clearer understanding of automation by making a distinction between the effects of mechanization and other forms of modernization that also result in labor saving. Harvard Business School Professor James R. Bright recently studied 13 U.S. corporations, found automation was only one of five factors ranging from product streamlining to better plant layouts that influenced employment. To blame all labor saving on machinery, said Bright, is "gross oversimplification." More and more managers are beginning to realize that in all great social changes, methods are almost as important as goals. Says International Business Machines...