Word: homework
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...business with Peking can be both sweet and sour. Japanese businessmen, no amateurs themselves, describe Mao's Marxist idealists as ruthless bargainers. Moreover, the Reds begin every session with an infuriating propaganda speech, and cannot meet at all on Wednesdays and Saturdays, when they do their own indoctrinal homework...
...family selected for at least six months. In ex change for room and board and pocket money (up to $10), the family gets a built-in baby sitter and mother's help er, generally of comparable social standing and education. The girl gets time off for classes and homework, some free nights, and one full day a week for herself. For guidance, she can turn to subsidiary facilities -clubs where au pairs can go to compare notes, counseling service to use if she is discontent. Meanwhile the experience of moving into an adopted family permits her insights into another...
...simply the lesser of two evils. He is a positive good, the best candidate since Adlai--no, better than Adlai, because he can talk to folks without the crutch of irony. He fights harder than Wayne Morse, yet smiles. He dreams bigger than Chester Bowles, yet does his homework. He is a male Eleanor Roosevelt...
Last week Sindona met with representatives of the U.S. General Foods Corp. to make plans for a joint venture in Sicily, did his homework for a similar planning session this week with Britain's Hambros Bank, and between times grabbed a telephone in his art-adorned office to hold Italian, French or limping English conversations with aides and agents on either side of the Atlantic. He has been on the telephone a lot lately. Last year he made news by swimming against the flood of U.S. acquisitions in Europe to buy, with two partners, a 20% controlling interest...
Steinberg likes to describe his role as a primus inter pares-a leader of equals -and he takes great pains to let his musicians share in the sense of accomplishment that most conductors reserve to themselves. And he is known as a conductor who religiously does his homework. Steinberg often rehearses without a score, and continually amazes the players by humming his own interpretation of each instrument's part...