Word: means
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plans would be a Manhattan meeting of the American Management Association attended by some 2,000 top businessmen. President Eisenhower, who holds it an article of faith that Government, business and labor have a joint antirecession responsibility, jumped to his feet, began pacing the floor. "Do you mean that's really what you're going to do?" asked he. "Do you mean that these businessmen are really going to take on responsibility for getting out of the recession?" Percy assured him that was the case. Said Eisenhower: ''That's where I'd like...
...Dean Acheson in a jovial frame of mind. "Why don't you get over to the State Department and do something about all the trouble?" asked Acheson. Half-flattered, Gruenther answered: "Dulles isn't as bad as all that, do you think?" "Oh, I didn't mean you should take over from Foster," shot back Acheson, "but aren't you in charge of disaster areas...
...objective in Union's new $16 million campaign is $4,075,000, of which $2,600,000 is to be earmarked for a new 16-story residence hall with apartments for married students and faculty families, plus single rooms for unmarried students. But the new housing plan will mean more to Union than mere shelter. Says Board Chairman Benjamin Strong: "The preparation of ministers requires constant and close association of teachers and students. Conversations in the halls, bull sessions in student rooms or faculty apartments, everything that goes on in the Union quadrangle has its place in sharpening...
Actually, the U.S. Government has no thought of boosting the price. Reason: it would probably do more harm than good abroad. Canada, South Africa and Russia, which has a huge stockpile, would be helped. But for dozens of other nations, which owe the U.S. money, it would only mean further depletion of their already skimpy foreign reserves...
Many salesmen today cry: "Sell harder!" Said Brower: "That's nonsense, if by 'hard sell' you mean nothing more than high pressure. There is really no such thing as 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' There is only 'smart sell' and 'stupid sell...