Word: implementation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angeles. Now there was at least a hope of change and perhaps a reason to stay. With Dispatch. Grasping at that hope, thousands of Negroes were flocking to register in the nine counties in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi where the Gov ernment has posted federal examiners to implement the voting law. They came last week in battered autos and char tered buses and on foot. They stood in the shimmering heat of midsummer, and they waited. Even when registrars as sured them, "We'll be here past today -we'll be here a long time," they still waited...
...hearings, the judge found Spiers, Knight and Penton guilty, but he imposed no penalties immediately. Instead, Christenberry gave Spiers and Knight seven days to create and implement a security plan for Bogalusa's civil rights workers. Failure to do so, he warned, would mean fines of $100 a day for each. Failure to comply will also put Knight and Spiers in the custody of the U.S. Attorney General, who would then have the power to jail them or treat them like parolees. Penton got off with what amounted to a warning...
...lifetime of intellectual labor he transformed himself, most professionals agree, into the greatest experimental scientist who ever lived. He induced the first electric current, developed the first dynamo and with it the possibility of electric power, created the science of electrochemistry and with it a primary implement of modern industry, blasted the first big breach in the Newtonian universe and laid down the foundations of both classical and contemporary field theory...
...prime mover was William M. Batten, a West Virginia storekeeper's son who clerked for Penney at 17 before studying economics. He undertook a two-year, 150-page study that proved so thorough that he was promoted from vice president to president and chief executive in 1958 to implement it. (In 1964, Batten moved up to chairman.) Besides remodeling small stores ("For years we were only in small towns," says Vice President William L. Marshall, "and we're not about to forsake them"), Penney moved into the cities and suburbs, expanded into hard goods, added 47 auto centers...
...goal to rid education of the so-called "eleven-plus" examination that in state-run schools forces children apart at the age of eleven-the top group streaming off to the academically superior "grammar schools," and the rest going on to conventional secondary schools. He will also implement Wilson's decision to open no new universities for the next ten years and instead to pour money and talent into expanding the existing ones...