Word: closers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this by contributing to the Radcliffe quota for either the proposed Harvard-Radcliffe Health Center or the Harvard-Radcliffe Theatre. Both these projects, which were announced this year, represent considerable forward steps in the development of closer relations between the University and its "sister college...
...unhappy with their country's role as instrument of Soviet policy in the Middle East, acted. At week's end 35 Shaabist Deputies resigned from Syria's 132-man Parliament, and 25 sympathizers were expected to follow. The middle-class Shaab (People's) Party comes closer than any other important group in the country to being pro-Western, even though its campaign propaganda talks as loudly about "positive neutrality" as anyone else. The resignations may bring on a general election, but there is no evidence that in such an election, the ruling clique of leftist politicians...
...experts keep closer watch on the U.S. economy than company purchasing agents, whose job is to gauge whether prices will go up or down. Last week at their annual meeting in Atlantic City, the purchasing agents arrived at a verdict of "cautious optimism" about business. Though few saw a sharp rise ahead, even fewer saw any reason for gloom. The majority agreed with Economist Martin R. Gainsbrugh of the National Industrial Conference Board, who saw signs of a modest business upturn in the second half of 1957. Said Gainsbrugh: "Total business activity is considerably stronger than would appear from...
...increased 300% in the past five years, with only a 60% increase in employees, attributes a good part of the gain to its cafeteria program. Other corporations find that a company dining room helps executives keep abreast of what is going on in other departments, also brings workers closer to the company...
...basic argument against the soil bank is that it is failing to reduce production. By pouring on the fertilizer, planting the rows closer together and cultivating more intensively, farmers are producing almost as much as before. For 1957, the U.S. signed up 233,453 farmers to take 12,784,968 acres of wheat out of production in return for $230,974,475 in payments. This should have cut output 20%, but the now ripening winter-seeded wheat crop (the bulk of the crop) is expected to be 703 million bu., only 4% under the 1956 total of 734 million. Moreover...