Word: finder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beginning of World War II found the company in a peculiar position. Its communications systems were supplying information to German submarines, and its American factories were assembling "Huff-Duff," the High Frequency Direction Finder used by the Allies to save their ships from German torpedoes. This is not one of Milo Minderbinder's fast-buck schemes from Catch-22. It is, in fact, a part of the corporate record of ITT, the American-based telecommunications conglomerate with worldwide interests as diversified as smoked meats and rental cars...
...means a flattening of human experience, a generality that amounts to well-meant condescension. In brief, it is sentiment. In her passion for "not evading facts, not evading what it really looks like," Diane Arbus became perhaps the least sentimental photographer who ever caught a face in the view finder. She refused to generalize. There was no family, and the unshared particularity of her subjects was recorded as it lay, dense, mediocre and impenetrable. "What I'm trying to describe," she declared, "is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else...
...first jump. During the Six-Day War, he made a point of trying to be first wherever he went -to the Wailing Wall, for instance, where he sounded the shofar (the traditional ram's horn). He is also admired as an astute scholar and consummate finder of Halakhah loopholes that more easily accommodate Orthodox observance to a technological world...
Robert McNamara, whose bullet-headed manner made him appear an ideal fact-finder, had a fondness for mathematics. David Halberstam has reported that on one Vietnam trip, an edgy McNamara sat through a dull series of fabricated progress reports by American military advisers, but was exhilarated when one clever officer presented his fabricated progress report with elaborate charts, graphs, and computer statistics. Those were facts...
...over handshakes between Burke and "probably 50 or 60" people who subsequently invested in Burke-run funds. Many of them funneled their cash into the stock of a fundraising corporation called GeoTek, of which Chandler is a director. For his services, Chandler in 1965 collected $109,200 in cash "finder's fees," which he returned to a Burke company this year after the first evidence surfaced of a possible scandal. The list of prominent investors includes Simon Ramo, a director of the Times parent company and a founder of the huge electronics-aerospace firm TRW Inc., who also lent...