Word: combats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...infallible sign of a rising executive. Today the management comer is more apt to find himself sent back to school with a pack of pencils and instructions to sharpen his potential. The new corporate fad-or what one executive calls "a fever sweeping industry"-was started to combat the shortage of executives by trying to force-feed talent in the classroom instead of waiting for it to grow naturally in the office. In 1957 alone, industry sent an estimated 300,000 executives back to school in hopes that they would learn to be better bosses. The phenomenal increase in corporate...
...teams played nearly even ball during the first five minutes of the second half, although Tech was unable to combat the Crimson fast break or the rebounding or guard Bob Repetto. Once Hasseltine fouled out, the varsity took complete charge of the game, running up a 24 point lead...
...wage-freeze idea is irrelevant to the current economic picture, because inflation has halted and a downturn has set in. Following the line of A.F.L.-C.I.O. economic orthodoxy, Meany argued that deflation is caused by a shortage of consumer purchasing power, and that therefore wage boosts are needed to combat the downturn...
Since the Supreme Court ruled in May, 1954, that segregated schooling violates the Fourteenth Amendment, the southern states have gone to astonishing lengths to combat this decision. An alarmingly large number of public officials seem determined to preserve a society of racial stratification and have even issued statements proclaiming their willingness to end public education if public schools must be integrated...
...base he chews the C.O. out and threatens to quit the Air Force if the thing doesn't stop. The colonel turns pale. The general turns pale. They realize only too well that without the sarge the preparation of the B-52 for combat will be seriously delayed, and without the B-52 ... In short, it is all pretty silly in an amiable...