Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of the important changes are aimed at improving the method of passing resolutions, which the Student Council listed as one of its major objections. By limiting to 25 the number of resolutions introduced and lengthening to three days the plenary session at which these are considered, the Committee feels that each resolution will have adequate discussion. Previously as many as 120 resolutions have been passed in a two-day session...
...submarines.* When Wilson called the Senate into extraordinary session, an outraged majority, led by Montana's Democratic Senator Thomas J. Walsh, imposed a rule under which debate could be ended by two-thirds of the Senators voting. But the new rule had a fatal flaw: it provided a method for cloture on any Senate measure-but not on a motion to consider the measure. That meant a motion to consider any bill or resolution could be endlessly filibustered. In 1949 Senate liberals put up a hard fight to get a workable cloture rule. The result was today...
...France's well-to-do, traditionally among the world's most adroit tax evaders, there would be sharply increased income taxes and a new method of assessment according to "external signs of wealth." Regardless of what a taxpayer may declare, the government will add $1,200 to his taxable income if he has a maid, about $1,300 if he has a small car less than five years old, another $1,200 for each racehorse he owns. And if a man is unwary enough to possess more than six such external signs of wealth, the assessors will automatically...
...highly polished Madison Avenue pitch. His patter is as distinctive as his black eyepatch, a souvenir of a losing scrap with a hand grenade during the Battle of the Bulge. He talks in terms of "imagery transfer" (which is simply radio cashing in on established TV advertising slogans, a method of attacking the public's ears while it rests its eyes); "engineered circulation" (urging consumers to use what they have already bought); and "sound thinking" (the proper use of mood music during commercials). During the past month Joe Culligan's time salesmen have already chalked up more than...
...Hollywood, looking at the statistics for a so-so year, managed to keep from dissolving in gloom. Only 216 pictures went into production during 1958, as, opposed to 297 in 1957, and movie-theater attendance dropped 7.6% from 1957. But theater owners cut their losses to 2.5%. Their method: raising admission prices...