Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their relief, they have been proved wrong. Rey may lack the imperious stubbornness that brought Hallstein to grief, but he has firmly established himself as master of his house. By delegating more authority than Hallstein, he has transformed the once dispirited commission that serves as the Common Market's Cabinet into a sound and cohesive team. He has repaired the disarray left by Hallstein's pitched battles with De Gaulle, showing that he is willing to compromise with the French without kowtowing to them. Through it all, with a judicious mixture of courage and pragmatism, he has revivified...
...locked to the 18th century practice of shuffling millions of paper stock certificates back and forth among investors. What market managers need, and are trying to achieve, is a completely automated system that would do away with the fancy certificates but record the transactions of every investor on a master file, like deposits and withdrawals in bank accounts...
...start off in a small apartment, move to the suburbs when the children arrive, shift from suburb to suburb as income rises, and then move back into the city after the children are grown-decorating and redecorating all along the way. Let there be a divorce, and the master bedroom, if not the whole house, is sure to be redone by the remaining partner. And even without such upheavals, Americans think of change as a form of therapy. "People can afford to be bored," says Dallas Decorator Howard Goldman. "They can now tire of things they couldn't afford...
...eclectic (see color pages). States Sears, Roebuck's Director of Design Richard D. Butler: "The period room is a thing of the past." With the prices of authentic antiques soaring as the worldwide supply diminishes, it was inevitable. The decorator, as a consequence, has become an artful mix master...
...subcommittee chaired by Richard T. Gill '48, Master of Leverett House, is pursuing a more cautious line at Harvard. "We hope to be able to achieve a policy in which all seniors could move out," Gill said yesterday, "but this would depend on the numbers. If a great many wanted to move off, on-campus rents would have to go up." This, Gill said, was unacceptable...