Word: cover
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Daily News) turned public relations man, last month approached Long Island Newsday Reporter Robert W. Greene with a proposition. A Harris client-John J. O'Rourke, boss of the New York Teamsters-was up for trial on a charge of jukebox racketeering. Greene had already been assigned to cover the trial, and by his account, Curly Harris, who is also a press-agent for Jimmy Hoffa, suggested that it might be worth $5,000 to Greene if he wrote gently about O'Rourke...
Another proposal is to set up a core program in the Department. There is, in fact, almost one already. Ec. 141--Money and Banking, Ec. 161--Industrial Organization, and Ec. 181--Industrial Relations, cover the major areas of the field and at least two of them are necessary to handle Generals well. A real core program where all concentrators would progress from one level of the next has many advantages; it provides a common background which the lecturer can assume, gives a common training, and insures that a student will not neglect a vital aspect of the field...
Concerted Effort. But Chauncey is just as concerned as anyone about composition. He calls for "a tremendous concerted effort" to get U.S. students writing more often and better. The new C.E.E.B. essay question is not in itself a panacea. It will take an hour, cover three pages and not be scored. It will go to three colleges, of the student's choice, which can do what they will with it. But it may at last replace the usual pat "biography" required by colleges, and students will get no help from papa. More important, it may help U.S. schools...
...that end directly at the sun. This oriented Lunik's other end to point roughly toward the moon. Then the first optical device shut off, and a second device took over, centered Lunik's axis exactly on the moon's disk and kept it there. A cover opened, exposing the lenses of two cameras, one of them magnifying the moon 2½ times as much as the other...
...purchaser loses when the stock does not move enough to cover the costs of the put or call, or when it moves the wrong way. Then the buyer loses the amount he paid for the option. While puts and calls are primarily used for speculating, they are also being used more to limit losses, protect paper profits, and for tax advantages. Primarily, they are for the stock market sophisticate who can afford to lose the premiums he must pay to speculate...