Word: dependability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contrast to Master Perkins, Trottenberg felt that the proposal represented "not a badly reasoned conservation of funds." Because the dry dorm crew removes only "surface dust," and that once a week, Trottenberg could not see its importance. "The cleanliness of the student room should depend on the student himself," he commented. Trottenberg plans to keep the idea under consideration...
Various money-saving experiments--based on preliminary indications--will be tested in University dining halls from Dec. 5 to 13. Buffet-style dining, in which each student serves himself, will "definitely" be tried, but other experiments "will depend upon the data we receive," said Trottenberg...
Some experiments which may be tried will not depend upon the current survey, but upon an analysis of wage costs and attendance figures. One money-saving proposal which has been suggested involves closing dining halls for part of the weekend; any decision in this direction will depend largely upon the number of students who do eat weekend meals...
...minutes later, wavy-haired United Steelworkers President David J. McDonald drifted in to talk sonorously to scribbling reporters. "We've engaged in another exercise of futility. Industry deliberately maneuvered and stalled and engaged in all kinds of fakery." Industry strategy, he charged, was to depend upon the Taft-Hartley law's 80-day injunction as "a bargaining tool" to drive strikers back into the mills...
...rate of the gross national product dropped $3.5 billion in the third quarter. An index of the eight key economic barometers fell farther in the first three months of the strike than during the first three months of the 1957 recession. The U.S. faced widespread shutdowns in industries that depend on the basic metal...