Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House Appropriations Subcommittee last week cut the National Aero nautics and Space Administration appropriation to $5.1 billion, some $600 million less than the Administration had requested. The action closely followed President Kennedy's United Nations speech proposing a joint moon venture with the Russians, which prompted many dollar-conscious Congressmen to ask whether there was still any real need to conduct the Apollo moon shot as a cash-eating crash venture (see SCIENCE). And further slashes may be in prospect. The subcommittee, reconsidering its vote, wound up in a 4 to 4 deadlock on a later move to pare...
...strictly domestic firms, other approaches must be tried. Many jobs are arranged through personal contacts. In other cases, emphasis must be placed on the intangibles of cultural exchange, promoting good will and cultivating foreign business. To a profit-conscious American businessmen the intangible is usually a very weak argument...
SOON after schools open each fall, we are conscious that TIME is undergoing a special kind of examination. For we begin to hear from some of the thousands of teach ers in secondary schools and colleges throughout the U.S. and Canada who use the magazine as a regular part of classroom work. Teachers and stu dents read, discuss, dissect, argue, criticize, challenge-and think. In some instances, as in the case of a St. Louis high school's freshman honors course for pupils with an IQ of 125 to 145, TIME has been required reading. For those schools formally...
...sort of tune he sang last week when he announced that Boston-based Sheraton expects to be in the black this year after suffering the first loss in its 26-year history in fiscal 1963. Gentle and somewhat shy in appearance, Henderson is actually a nail-hard and penny-conscious executive who goes about flipping off lights and mercilessly fires longtime employees to save money. He uses the stock market as a bellwether for the chain he helped found, spending and expanding when it rises and retrenching when it falls. A knowledgeable antique collector, a frenetic photographer and an amateur...
...Immigrants explore the backgrounds of leading Americans. She is now editing Travels in New York and New England, the diary of Timothy Dwight, former president of Yale University; she enjoys studying New England, she says, "because I grew up here--and also, the people have always been so conscious of history...