Word: equip
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unimaginative-the best we had in a time when that best seemed more adequate to deal with the world than it does today. As the book goes along, one is inclined to forgive Henry, and the author, the narrative necessities that shoot him hither and yon and miraculously equip him with the Russian and German necessary to do his work for Wouk, F.D.R. and the reader...
...another case, Ralph Nader has filed suit demanding that the President release White House documents concerning a Department of Transportation decision to delay the date when auto manufacturers must equip their cars with safety air bags. Again, the Administration has claimed executive privilege...
...industry adds benzene and toluene to the cheaper grades of petrol, which the sun's rays convert into highly toxic gases. Compounding the ecological tragedy still further, the number of private cars in Tokyo has doubled within the past three years, and the Japanese car manufacturers, who equip automobiles exported to the U.S. with exhaust-control devices, follow no such restraints in their own domestic market...
...children of other races are managing the problems remarkably well. But there are opponents of mixed adoption. Most vocal among them are the black separatists, who fear loss of the Negro's heritage through assimilation. Even integrationist blacks and whites worry about the ability of white parents to equip black youngsters for survival in a prejudiced world. They are concerned over all sorts of seemingly minor problems, such as a white parent's lack of experience in combing a black child's kinky hair ("There's just no way to do it gently," says Urban Planner...
...these objectives as carefully and regularly as they now gauge progress in meeting financial targets. - Top management should encourage younger executives to contribute time to community projects in such areas as health, education and recreation-not as an "extracurricular" activity but as an "essential ingredient for managers aiming to equip themselves for broader corporate responsibility." - Each big firm should set up a team, under a senior executive, that would look for potentially profitable "social market" activities in such fields as rebuilding ghettos and designing efficient transportation systems-and do so as aggressively as the regular marketing staff searches out other...