Word: formality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vital: no small businessman has a chance alone against a powerful union. Employer associations can not only pool resources, but also save employers' time and money by bargaining for them. The mammoth steel industry practices a highly useful form of industrywide bargaining, though it boggles at any formal association of companies. After a bad strike in 1946, U.S. Steel Corp. sat down in 1947 with the union and hammered out a contract setting a pattern that the rest of the industry has since followed. In effect, U.S. Steel, biggest and toughest in the industry, negotiates on an industry-wide...
...space of a few minutes. Nikita Khrushchev had brushed aside the myth of collective leadership and gathered to himself formal command over both the Soviet government and the Communist Party. No man except Stalin had held both jobs simultaneously before (Malenkov held both for a few transitional days in 1953 ), and even Stalin, who could have taken the premiership any time he chose, found it wise to wait 19 years for what...
...either), as well as a bundle of paradoxes. Though he cultivates a faint brogue derived from his County Kerry ancestry, he never saw Ireland until 1954. He can talk religion with the most devout, but he has not practiced Roman Catholicism since his high school days ended his formal education. Though Hollywood seems a most unlikely place to have produced the author of Little Moon, he was raised there, played some bit parts as a child, shook off the "meaningless" glamour at 19 to go to Manhattan, "the Mecca of the artist...
Vanguard's rocketmen, too devoted to believe in anything but ultimate success, gilded their worries with sentiment. As the moment for last week's shoot approached, one man fastened a St. Christopher's medal inside the bird, after producing a formal equipment-change memo on which was printed, as the reason for the change...
...billings of $2,000,000 a year after it started in 1949, Manhattan's Doyle Dane Bernbach has shot up to $20 million-and the growth of its reputation has been even more spectacular. Reason: Doyle Dane Bernbach believes that copy is more important than market research, graphs, formal presentations and much of the other paraphernalia that dominate many agencies. Says Agency President William Bernbach, 46: "We get people to look and listen by being good artists and writers. We don't expect of research what it is unable to do. It won't give...