Word: keening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agency; it handled billings of $389 million last year. It is by far the biggest agency west of the Hudson, and Burnett never felt the need for the creative flash of Manhattan. "Ideas don't know where they are born," he said. His own ideas were based on keen appraisals of consumer wants and were often disarmingly wrapped in homilies. His agency created the Pillsbury Doughboy, as well as the Marlboro Man, the Jolly Green Giant, Star-Kist's Charlie the Tuna, Maytag's dependability campaigns, and the slogans "You're in good hands with Allstate...
Having lost the race to the moon, the Russians are clearly determined not to arrive second in other areas of space. Though last month's linkup of a manned spaceship with a larger unmanned vehicle was apparently marred by difficulties, it showed the keen Soviet interest in establishing the first earth-orbiting space station. The Russians are also aiming at more distant targets. Last week they launched a massive, 10,230-lb. spacecraft toward Mars...
...shortage, many of this year's applicants for corporate jobs are very independent, both in their styles of clothing and dress and their attitudes toward companies. They are not afraid to inquire about a prospective employer's stance on pollution, civil rights and open housing. They are also not keen about make-work jobs. "You just can't get by these days with putting a graduate design engineer on the drawing boards and having him put threads on bolts for two years," says one recruiter for a major chemical firm. Other businessmen agree that industry must invent challenging, decision-making...
...Bihari was deputy secretary of finance in the state of Rajastan. Born a Brahimin, he had participated in his family's devotional practices as a boy and young man, but got little out of them, despite his "very keen desire to realize the Truth." His faith in the traditional forms diminished in the course of his life as he realized, in the face of various tensions and attractions, that he had no stability. Eventually, with his mind "churning," he made a pilgrimage to the Himalayas to see if he could find someone who could lead him to the Truth...
...former Secretary of the Air Force, Missouri Senator Stuart Symington has developed a keen sensitivity to one sign of the approach of spring. "Here we go again," he sighed last week, as he noted the emergence of "warnings of grave new dangers to this country because of developments in Soviet weaponry." The annual congressional committee hearings on defense appropriations were under way and, sure enough, U.S. military intelligence had detected evidence that the Soviet Union might be deploying a new intercontinental ballistic missile...