Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...debating the subject. But most State Department experts think that the moratorium, as a gag on free discussion, has lost too much favor with a General Assembly now swollen to 99 members, with most of the new nations opposed to the idea. The DOS planners would prefer to conduct open arguments on the merit of Red China's admission-and seek to have the question classified as an "important" matter, requiring a two-thirds majority vote...
...terms that soared far beyond any interservice squabble in the Pentagon. For the general in the White House is convinced that the U.S. must give "to friend and foe alike a clear expression of our purpose and of our motives. Our military behavior must be visibly consistent with our conduct in the political, economic and intellectual fields. Such are the notes to be sounded by confident leaders who know what they are doing and why. Then we can prepare ourselves calmly to the battle, knowing that if it is properly prepared, the odds are high for peace...
...money committee, for instance, meets every morning. The bankers at the midtown offices at Park Avenue and 53rd Street assemble in their conference room while their colleagues on Wall Street gather in theirs. With cameras trained on each group, and with two TV screens picturing each scene, the members conduct their business as if they were together in one room. Staging plays no part in the meetings; the bankers do not even bother to wear the nonreflecting blue shirts that TV show business requires. Says Senior Vice President C. Sterling Bunnell, "We all had a momentary self-consciousness...
...Code Hero is both a little snobbish and a little vague, but the test of the code is courage, and the essence of the code is conduct. Conduct, in Hemingway, is sometimes a question of how one behaves honorably toward another man or woman. More often, it is a question of how the good professional behaves within the rules of a game or the limits of a craft. All the how-to passages-how to land a fish, how to handle guns, how to work with a bull-have behind them the professional's pride of skill...
...barrel of apples had better be tumbled out and examined. Testifying before a House subcommittee, Gary urged a full-dress investigation of general trading and market practices, strongly endorsed a proposal by Illinois' Democratic Congressman Peter Mack, the subcommittee chairman, that would give the SEC $750,000 to conduct an 18-month probe of the whole securities business...