Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hand, he could both understand the order and carry it out. The doctors decided to move Congrave from St. Luke's Hospital to Craig Colony, a nearby rehabilitation center. There a battery of therapists went to work on him, trying to retrain him, starting almost at the infant level, in speech, feeding and self-care...
Management Audience. But the Journal's eight-man staff also stands diligent guard over top-level military policies, carries voluminous texts of significant military documents. Boasts Publisher Robert Ames: "We reach the top management audience of the military." The Journal's weak spot is its tendency to be a house organ for the military. This it does with out shame or doubt, meticulously listing in country-weekly style all military transfers (sometimes thousands an issue), runs a chatty society section devoted to service doings, plus a vital statistics column in which, as one staffer says, "an Army brasshat...
...reduce the rate at which we construct much-needed plant and equipment. In other words, the recession is making it easier in the long run for demand to outrun the supply of goods. Hence, the present recession tends to increase the likelihood of a rise in the price level...
...atomic fuels at a cost competitive with hydroelectric power or coal power. The Argonne National Laboratory at Lemont, Ill. announced its experimental boiling water reactor, put in operation a year ago and originally designed for an output of 20,000 kw. of heat had been safely operated at a level of 50,000 kw., cutting the estimated cost of electricity per kw-h from 5.2? to 3.2?. while that price is still too high to be of commercial use, Argonne estimates that four boiling water reactors like the one at Argonne could be hooked up to a power station, turn...
...massive chronicle, the scenes that Omnibus selected-a rowdy night at Drury Lane, a fashionable gathering at Mrs. Thrale's home, a packed Old Bailey courtroom-were charged with both drollery and drama. For, more than any other Englishman, Sam Johnson raised "a life of talk to the level of a life of action...