Word: discussing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subordinates tend not to argue or to bring up the unpleasant business of the public opinion polls. Indeed one of Johnson's problems is a worsening dearth of idea men and "no" men willing to discuss bad news with him. He favors loyalty, submission and long tenure above all other virtues, and has eliminated gadflies from the White House staff and the higher echelons of Government. The phrase Great Society is rarely heard from official lips now, and there are no new coinages...
...presents the White House with tactical and strategic plans worked out for as much as six months ahead. The details of those plans are digested every Tuesday in a quiet second-floor dining room of the White House, where the President, his Secretary of Defense and Secretary of State discuss the efforts and exigencies of some 500,000 American troops in Viet Nam. They talk about everything from the breechblock of the M-16 (prone to jam) to the accessibility of fresh eggs for artillerymen on the DMZ. Mostly they talk strategy and political ramifications. Thanks to instant communication...
...Charles S. Davidson, associate professor of Medicine and associate director of the Thorndike Memorial Laboratories at the Boston City Hospital, will attend a conference at the Weizman Institute in Israel on August 23. The subject of the conference is health problems in developing states. Dr. Davidson will discuss liver diseases...
Earlier this week the Massachusetts Trial Lawyers Association invited all city bar associations to an emergency conference to discuss the bill. Dr. Calvin Brainard, professor of finance and insurance at the University of Rhode Island, and a former insurance underwriter, submitted a 71-page report on Keeton's scheme to the Trial Lawyers Association. Brainard argued that the new plan would benefit bad drivers and that it would not reduce rates...
...first glance, life at Wellmet for a student might seem to be a continual draining. How can a student cope with academic and personal problems when residents intrude on him with requests to hear a poem, to amuse them, to reassure them, to discuss their troubles? What keeps the students going through the constant frictions, the harrassments not only of the residents but also of the other students in the crowded quarters? How can they resist the barrage against their emotions and personalities...