Word: formals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White House has informed Milton Katz, Director of the Center for International Legal Studies, that President Eisenhower has agreed to speak at the formal opening of the new Legal Studies building October...
Richest Opportunity. At the formal opening of the exhibition that evening. Khrushchev conceded in his speech to some 4,000 official guests that he had felt "a certain envy" in looking at the displays. But, he went on, the U.S.S.R. would "surpass the U.S., not only in total volume of production but also in per capita production." Russians, he said, "see the American exhibition as an exhibition of our own achievements in the near future." The day is not far off "when our country will overtake our American partner in peaceful economic competition and will then, at some station, come...
...Urals & Beyond. Before he left Washington for Moscow, Richard Nixon had worried that Khrushchev might snub him and permit only brief, formal contacts. Instead, Nixon saw Khrushchev more often, on more intimate terms, than any American visitor to Moscow before him. A totalitarian unused to real debate, Khrushchev grew increasingly amiable despite Nixon's back talk-or perhaps because...
...Harvard students' report finds that both small and big businesses need "effective competitive intelligence systems" to hold their own in today's competitive business world-and that setting them up on a formal, ethical basis may do away with a lot of hanky-panky. It also sounds a warning through the words of one executive: "If you spend too much time finding out what your competitor is doing, you may be spending too little time developing newer products and processes of your own. You become less imaginative, less dynamic, less resourceful...
Wilted Poppies. Encolpius opens the book with a scabrous philippic against "modern" education, sounding a little like Bernard Shaw denouncing formal schooling. But Encolpius tires of this theme and soon becomes involved with his two comrades-in-arms in a sale of stolen goods. Later, the two older men quarrel, and Encolpius suggests they divide their belongings and separate. Ascyltus agrees-and draws his sword, threatening to divide the boy Giton. The most sustained satire of the volume describes a lavish dinner at the mansion of Trimalchio, wealthy and flatulent onetime slave. He presents each outrageous new dish-a roast...