Word: outlook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take precedence over the higher imperatives of sport, Brundage fired his ire to newsmen: "Just imagine the blow to U.S. Olympic prestige! Why, if the president of the International Committee is unable to attend an important meeting, the United States might as well drop out of the games." Outlook by week's end: Brundage will get his passport...
...CRANDALL, chairman of the board, George A. Fuller Co.: "The outlook for the construction industry is very good. Actual work put in place during the first six months of 1957 is 3% to 4% ahead of last year. This pace should continue for the last six months...
...succeeds in checking its spending and inflation. Said Brundage: "For the present, I believe that our major fiscal objectives should be to maintain a budget surplus and continue reductions in the public debt, with reductions in the present high tax rates only when our budget surplus and the economic outlook justify them...
...when he looks at the accumulated evidence, Jacob feels that although college does make a difference, it is not a very fundamental one for most students. He notes that college tends to move students toward a greater uniformity and at the same time somewhat more flexibility of social outlook, but he feels that these are changes on the surface of personality, and do not involve the fundamental values which shape a student's life pattern. "They certainly do not support the widely held assumption that a college education has an important, general, almost certain 'liberalizing' effect," he claims...
...academic influence. Jacob points out, however, that most of the studies which report this trend were conducted in the 1930's when exceptional social and economic distress brought about a general liberal reorientation. He notes that more recent surveys comparing college graduates with others find the difference in outlook negligible on many questions, and that on economic issues the college man is likely to be more conservative than the others...