Word: closers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...properties, is banking on this discontent to pay off at Fairbanks, Morse's next annual meeting, in March. At the last meeting he won four seats on the eleven-man board, with his supporters voted 431,492 shares to management's 836,546. The margin is much closer now. Said Silberstein last week: "I am confident that we and the stockholders opposed to present management now have control of Fairbanks, Morse...
...wing-man Bob McVey has been shifted back to defense on several occasions and may be used to bolster that department in this weekend's matches against Norwich and Middlebury. Speedy sophomore Paul Kelley has replaced McVey beside Cleary and Guttu. The game against Norwich on Friday should be closer than everyone predicts...
...contracts is bound to make this sense of detachment even more pervasive. All this points up the need for improved channels of communication between union leaders and members, plus a broadening of union functions in education, recreation, civic affairs and other fields that will bind the rank-and-file closer to the organization in periods when there are no new contracts to get excited about...
...been how to determine exactly and continuously where the ship is located on the earth's surface. At 1,500-mile range, such positioning becomes tremendously important to the missile's accuracy. Even under ideal launching conditions, missile men admit an intermediate missile is unlikely to hit closer than a quarter of a mile from the bull's-eye. If determinations of the target's direction and the ship's position are slightly off, the error can be disastrously larger. What makes the problem particularly difficult on shipboard is that the launching platform is continually...
...fleeing from the wrath of his subjects, plunging into the jungle. The emperor bursts on stage, confident and arrogant, but already tired of running. The fear and disintegration seen in Jones on his frantic flight is echoed remorselessly by the ceaseless native drums, coming louder and closer and faster until, finally, Jones is shot. At this ponit, it might have been stronger and better balanced for O'Neill's abridger to end his play, but he leaves the original ending--light enters the stage, civilization is introduced in the form of a skeptical white trader...