Word: half
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...month in the New York City area, up from 20,000 in 1967. As for Benton & Bowles, its problems persist. Last week the agency discovered that its listing was inadvertently left out of the new phone books. New York Tel promised to insert the listing in the last half of the press run, and to make sure that the early books are distributed to Manhattan's outlying areas where few subscribers are likely to feel a need to call an ad agency...
...advertising and public relations firm. Erich Barnes, a Cleveland Browns defensive back, readily admits that his Barnes Enterprises, Inc., a public relations firm, has gained considerable yardage from his football background. "You can get in the door if they've heard of you," Barnes says, "and that is half the battle." Once inside, Barnes tells white businessmen that "if they want the black man as a consumer, they are going to have to encourage him as a producer." Barnes and his nine-man staff primarily help big companies find black firms that can supply goods and services...
However, the school in 1812 still had an air of the comic opera about it. Its saltbox headquarters, "Long Barracks," half a dozen officers' houses, small hospital and tailor shop were surrounded by crumbling forts and ancient, rusting equipment. Its textbooks on warfare were outrageously out of date. Its acting superintendent, Alden ("Old Pewter") Partridge, punished refractory cadets by putting them in an 8-ft.-square pit with...
Boston State Hospital is known as a leader among state institutions ill. Over the past ten years, its census has been cut in half as the staff has realized that more can be done for patients than simply caring for their basic needs and has taken an active, creative role in helping patients recover...
...couldn't hear (he threw away his hearing aid). No one thought we could do much for him. but after many ping pong matches he began to hear questions and answers them with words instead of a nod. He will be moving out of the hospital into a half-way house. And there's the woman who never moved into our ward, probably because it might have meant that she would try again to get a job, to leave the hospital's security. Her volunteer happened to be one of the people who doesn't let himself give...