Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...closed corporation was created and George Webster, a well-known graduate of the Harvard Business School, was hired as business consultant. Howard Ruff, the San Francisco franchiser, invented the idea of simply-worded full page newspaper advertisements, and Reading Dynamics...
...Reading Dynamics Institute also produces the same kind of propaganda associated with party activity. Usually it is composed of statements from well-known people who have been converted to the idea of reading dynamics. Professor Stauffer of Delaware is probably the party's chief propagandist. But not to be overlooked are statements from prestigious non-experts such as Senator William Proxmire whose famous quotation is: "I must say that this was one of the most useful educational experiences I've ever had. It certainly compares favorably with the experiences I've had at Yale and Harvard...
...Economic Opportunity Act; it provides incentives to businesses which set up on-the-job training programs. Even without that money, a small metal-working firm, providing 30 or 40 jobs, has agreed to locate in the neighborhood, and five other companies of about that size are considering the idea...
...true, of course, that would be pretty important to Kennedy around 1971 or '72. But it may not be true. There is reason to wonder whether the whole thing will succeed--or even get off the ground. What if residents don't like the idea of putting aside what little money they have for rehabilitation projects and the like? As one Kennedy aide puts it, "This won't work if the community doesn't come through." He thinks it will...
...starting off by just putting in a couple of new parks," sighs one consultant. He concedes that there are more direct ways to deal with poverty-like giving poor people money through a negative income tax--but he insists that physical renewal and comprehensive planning is a good idea anyway. "Just about every community in this country could use planning like this," He says. "You have to start somewhere, and a place like Bedford-Stuyvesant has the greatest need...