Word: discussing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...topic of the first of three summer conferences, beginning on Monday, July 16. The other two conferences will be "The Little Magazine in America" and "General Education at the Crossroads." Starting next Monday, leaders in the fields of broadcasting education and government will conduct a three day meeting to discuss the potentialities of mass communication as a means of instruction...
...Springdale is cooperation. New ideas and findings are interchanged within our own laboratories, among our printing and paper suppliers and throughout the entire industry. More than a thousand visitors a year from the graphic arts call at Springdale, some to see work in progress, others to ask questions and discuss mutual problems. "Anyone who taps on our door gets in−they all bring us ideas," says Research Director Roswell ("Bud") Fisher...
...predecessor as the Steelworkers' president, always geared his thinking to the inevitable strike, as a Washington labor specialist points out, but McDonald always thinks ahead to the inevitable settlement. Emphasizing the mutual trusteeship of labor and management. McDonald persuaded negotiators to sit around the table to discuss this year's contract−instead of across the table from each other. Then he suggested that the table be taken away altogether so they could just sit around. Even on the eve of the strike, the worst thunderbolt that McDonald could think of to hurl at Big Steel management...
...yield to a woman's tears. "Give her an opportunity to regain self-control. Let her know you're available to discuss anything she wants to bring up. Explain the situation in detail. Above all, don't dismiss a tearful girl with an offhand: 'Go wash your face; you'll feel better.' Reconcile yourself to the fact that in most cases the cause of a woman's tears are beyond your control...
...relaxed approach penetrates the entire World Bank. No tight-collared protocol man-"don't have time for it"-he keeps paperwork to a minimum, hardly ever writes a memo, instead prefers to work out problems face to face. He lets underlings work out projects, does not like to "discuss loans until they are just about on the edge of the stove...