Word: companion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...further introduce myself, I'm with Collier's, the former publishers of Collier's, the American, and the Woman's Home Companion Magazines...
...meaning only in the context of a market economy and implies an acceptance of the status quo income distribution. Egalitarian goals are introduced at best on an ad hoc basis, and the human costs of rapid economic growth-the fracture of community, for example-are seldom considered. A companion objective typically assumed for poor countries, that of "political development." aims at little more than convergence with western political system. Thus, the conventional confines of the fields of study define a set of objectives, thereby inhibiting critical discussion of the goals of development and reducing consideration of development policy to maters...
Married. Corrine Huff, 28, onetime beauty queen and former secretary and No. 1 companion to high-living Congressman Adam Clayton Powell; and Patrick Brown, 25, until recently Powell's Bimini-based fishing-boat captain; both for the first time; in an Anglican ceremony; in Bimini, the Bahamas...
...forge their chains of command in a way that has become a behavioral cliché-the pecking order. But it was accomplished in considerably less time than chickens normally take. The applications seem endless: say, in replenishing command vacancies in governments and armies, in selecting the properly submissive evening companion from a cocktail-party crowd or in determining ahead of time whether you or your opponent is likely to have the upper hand in a debate...
...Boston attorney and occasional sailing companion of Ted's, Tretter, 30, is typical of the smart, clean-cut young men whom the Kennedys have attracted to their campaigns. A 1960 dean's list graduate of Boston College, Tretter volunteered for Ted's first Senate race and worked as an advance man, mapping itineraries and revving up crowds for the candidate's appearance. He now works for the New England Regional Commission in Boston...