Word: employed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...coldest of the titans of his time, but he will perhaps have left the warmest legacy. "Architecture," he once said, "goes beyond utilitarian needs. You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart. You do me good and I am happy and I say, 'This is beautiful.' That is Architecture. Art enters...
...program of Faculty Aides will be extended to include Widener library next year, Gordon Buchanan. Administrative Assistant, announced recently. The library will employ six to twelve students in various phases of library work for the length of the academic year...
Pausing occasionally for a swig of the Scotch and water on the stand before him.* Lloyd lectured the House on Britain's nagging problem of productivity, asked for standby power to tax companies 4 shillings (56?) per week for each worker they employ, as a means of encouraging them to switch to more efficient, labor-saving machinery. To fight inflation and help bolster sagging exports, the chancellor proposed that Parliament drop the system of fixing excise and purchase taxes by law, leave it to the government to manipulate the rates within limits as it sees fit, raising the taxes...
...Administration was softening in its resolve to use nuclear weapons to defend Western Europe against a Russian attack with conventional forces. Adenauer knew that the new Administration wanted to build up NATO's conventional military forces and to raise the "threshold" at which the U.S. would employ nuclear weapons. He also knew that the Kennedy Administration was doubtful about previous plans to build up a new deterrent force of Polaris missile submarines, under the control of NATO rather than the U.S. -a proposal that Adenauer had endorsed...
...Saigon, Diem's total dropped to 65%, and 26% of the electorate joined the Communist boycott and stayed home. This reflected, among other things, the capital's widespread discontent among business and professional classes at the dictatorial methods Diem feels obliged to employ in his six-year-old fight against the Communist rebellion. But the very size of the opposition vote was evidence that the much abused Diem had run a reasonably honest election...