Word: exploits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt, who had taken advantage of the Secretary's absence to give Dewey the go-ahead.) It was a heady exploit, and made an overnight hero of Admiral Dewey; the headaches came later...
...assiduity, the pride, sensitivity, and courage of ordinary people, and consequently the mixed feelings with which they have received our generosity. At this point we find two individuals confronting each other in Mr. Goodfriend's pages--a baffied American advertising executive, evidently stuck on the problem how further to exploit the "X" in LUX ("New! Faster! Sudsier! So Safe!"), and a primordial-looking Chinese oldster, complete with whiskers and pipe, peering quizzically at us through Chinese eyes. The subsequent illustrations of what WE SAW and what THEY SAW ("WE SAW output raised by tractors and other machinery": "THEY SAW wheels...
...before moving his wife and two children from Switzerland to New Rochelle, N.Y. But even before that, he began asking himself a practical businessman's question: "How did people in the United States manage to build industries and cities so fast, how did they have such opportunities to exploit their individual talents...
Mills also attacks the non-educational work of professors. "The merging type of professional-and-businessman seeks to be and often is an entrepreneur who can exploit special privileges. Among these is the use of both business and professional bureaucracies. The professor sells the prestige of his university to secure market-research jobs in order to build a research unit; he is privileged over commercial agencies because of his connection with the university...
Just as the harvest season was getting under way last month, Guatemala's cocky Communist union bosses saw a chance to exploit the situation, though it meant hitting at the government. They called a strike on the government's most valuable farm, 11,000-acre Finca La Concepción, threatened walkouts on other federal farms. Last week, the government finally agreed to pay the demanded 80?-a-day minimum wage on Concepción and a few other farms. On most of the government's 126 farms, wages will remain the lowest in the country...