Word: hangups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regulate an international money that would be handled only by governments, not people. The first tentative steps toward that were taken at last fall's meeting of the 107-member International Monetary Fund. The IMF voted to create an Ersatzgold called "special drawing rights." There is one big hangup: these "S.D.R.s" will probably not be activated until the U.S. and Britain markedly reduce their balance of payments deficits. But it is quite possible that by 1975 the S.D.R.s will increase the world's reserves by 25%. Says German Banker Hermann Abs approvingly: "It's like putting...
...could have dropped his awful obligation to art-his cosmic gropings after sex and death, universal guilt, America! America!-all Author Orlovitz may really have wanted to do was write a nice quiet memoir about a Philadelphia boyhood, made up of such common scrapbook elements as a father hangup, comic aunts, and holiday outings in Atlantic City...
...through the 25-hour "professional selling skills" course. In small groups of six or so, the pitchmen analyze realistic, tape-recorded selling situations, then break off for "roleplay" sessions with "pretend" customers. The students soon overcome what Xerox's Ted Lee says is the salesmen's major hangup: "Most salesmen hate to ask for a final sales commitment because they are afraid of getting turned down...
Ford did manage to wring some relief in the haggling over the last major contract hangup, which concerned the U.A.W.'s cherished cost-of-living escalator clause. While the old contract provided for unlimited automatic wage adjustments geared to the consumer price index, this time Ford got annual ceilings of 8? and 7? in the second and third years of the contract, agreeing to a minimum annual increase of 3? in return. The pennies were not peanuts; 1? an hour on Ford's 160,000-man payroll means $3,200,000 a year...
...like to know where my closest competition is during a race," he continued. "But I like to hear the Coach shout out. "He's fifty yards behind rather than 'He's fifty yards behind and gaining' even if he is. I've got something of a hangup on that...