Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Line. To get the company in shape to handle such tough new projects, Price also had to streamline his management. It was too cumbersome; six different divisions might have to work on cost estimates before Westinghouse could bid for an order, taking so many weeks that the company could lose it. One day in 1949, Price dropped in, unannounced, on a Manhattan efficiency expert, Mark Cresap, and asked him to study Westinghouse's sales methods, which Price thought needed improving. In 90 days Cresap brought in a report which so impressed Price that he hired Cresap as a vice...
Columbia has a goal--a .500 won-lost percentage. For the better part of the season, the Lions fought to keep their heads above this mark. They were dipped slightly below it by Army earlier in the week, and will probably lose sight of it completely after today's meet...
...that their life and control surfaces had to be thinner, in order to out down the drag offsets of air resistance. As these structures became thinner, it was seen that at certain speeds, they developed a noticeable flutter. When wings flutter, their airfoil shapes are distorted, and they sometimes lose all their lifting ability...
Since the play hinges on Jeeter, Martin's share of onus for the show's failure is greatest. His role is a delicate one because the curtain scenes in acts two and three feature more drama than comedy. About to lose his land in act two, Jeeter pleads with the new owner to let him stay on; and at the end, his wife dead, he realizes that the land is no longer his. These scenes are maudlin bathos without a sympathetic treatment of Jeeter, and Martin's un-modulated buffoonery throughout the play kills audience feeling for him. His Jeeter...
Students who deliberately decelerate their programs or fail courses in an effort to remain in college for more than four years will lose their deferments automatically...