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...return, franchisers get a two-week training course at Philadelphia headquarters, together with manuals that explain such things as how to furnish a waiting room ("Do not buy small magazines, such as the Reader's Digest or National Geographic, since they quickly disappear"); how to arrange a desk drawer; and how to size up an applicant's "steak" (education, marital status, job history) and "sizzle" (personality, awards, hobbies) in a ten-minute interview. Franchisers clear up to 20% of their fees as profit...
...Drawer Full of Clippings. "The ghost that haunts the policy officer or haunts the man who makes the final decision is the question as to whether, in fact, he has in his mind all of the important elements that ought to bear upon his decision or whether there is a missing piece that he is not aware of that could have a decisive effect if it became known...
...section that had been organized to cover everything from Afghanistan right through southern Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia and the Pacific. The materials available to me consisted of a tourist handbook on India and Ceylon, a 1924 military attache's report from London on the Indian army, and a drawer full of clippings from the New York Times gathered since World War I. That was literally the resources of G-2 on that vast part of the world a year after the war in Europe had started. We have greatly improved our ability to gather relevant information. However, our problem...
Bonnie Butler, the Institute's Assistant Director of Research Grants, described the money as a Research Career Award, one of the Institute's "top drawer" projects for qualified scientists. She added that Harvard will receive $26,000 next year to support Skinner's work. The financing of the grant leaves his tenure position and University standing unaffected...
Like other authors before him, he strews his book with phrases like "we have no reason to doubt," which keep him honest while he pushes conjecture to the far limits of common sense. Like others, too, he is an image-counter and an incorrigible drawer of conclusions about the man's life from the man's works. Because Shakespeare refers to bowling 19 times in his plays, Rowse is sure that the bard must have loved bowling. Because Shakespeare puts in Sir John Falstaffs mouth the famous speech slighting honor ("Who hath it? He that died...