Word: embarks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...loosened a little, lowered the official bank interest rate by 0.3% to 6.57%-back to where it was before the clampdown. Japanese businessmen were delighted, but they still managed to pull a poor mouth. Says Fuji Steel President Shigeo Nagano: "I would like to see the government now embark on a general relaxation of financial curbs, otherwise it is going to be a long, slow climb back to prosperity''-Japanese style, that...
...schools of journalism, large doubts arise as to whether there is any legitimate reason for their existence. Journalism cannot really be taught. The essential newspaper 'techniques' are not techniques at all, but touches of talent." - "There is in journalism a widespread view that when you embark on interpretation, you are entering choppy and dangerous waters, the swirling tides of opinion. This is nonsense. In the presentation of a so-called 'factual' or 'objective' story, judgments are involved. And they are judgments not at all unlike those involved in interpretation...
...embark on one beat, switch to another, then return to the original without a hitch. He never misses a rim shot, and his timing is faultless. What is more, James Bradley Jr. is only four...
...effects for the short period of five years is an insufficient trial period. Some cancers have a latent period of 17-35 years following the irritating cause. It would be much safer to prevent the union of sperm and egg by the more conventional methods of contraception than to embark upon a widespread use of a pill, the full effects of which cannot yet be known. ROBERT RUGH New York City...
...than-life statues of Legionnaires. Sentries in white kepis still stood guard before the gate bearing the inscription Légion Etrangère, but packing cases were piled on stair landings and in mess halls, and Legion tanks and halftracks were clanking down the road to Oran to embark for France...