Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...black-and-white or on new, grainless color film-which can be dropped in pods and parachuted to waiting intelligence officers. When sensitive receivers detect incoming radar pulses, the Blackbird can dip into its bag of tricks and give itself "electronic invisibility." There is even a top-secret method of masking the SR-71's heat emissions to confuse enemy infrared tracking. Put together in one package, the sophisticated gadgetry makes the Blackbird all but invulnerable-the next best thing to a manned, orbiting...
...Goodrich Co., fighting a takeover by Northwest Industries, increased its 1968 profit from $2.76 per share to $3.25 through two maneuvers. The company shifted to straight-line depreciation and changed its method of tabulating earnings. Higher profits, of course, would tend to lift the price of Goodrich's stock -making it more difficult for Northwest to buy control...
...method of electing the student directors is likely to become more democratic. Under the current by laws, the nine student directors include two from the graduate schools of Harvard, one from the graduate schools of M.I.T., three Harvard undergraduates, one. Radcliffe student, and two M.I.T. undergraduates. Traditionally the stockholders have nominated these students on the recommendations of their deans. While not particularly democratic, this system had produced, Brown believes, interested and responsible directors...
...should they also vote for the Radcliffe, M.I.T., and graduate candidates? Moreover, what fraction of the total vote should determine an 'election? If after the first few years the numbers of members actually interested enough to vote dwindles, as had happened at the Yale Co-op, will the method any longer be representative? The By-Laws Committee must weight quality against equality...
...simple as it seems; "The by-laws are put together very tightly. If you start to tamper with any part, they all begin to come apart. By analyzing the whole corporate structure, hopefully by summer we will be able to come up with a more satisfactory method of getting a representative and responsible board of directors for the Coop...