Word: overlapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...psychological terms. Very few of us are at home in all these different modes of speech, and each of us habitually uses only one of them to talk and think in. But what is happening today should make it clear that that these different modes of speech, all overlap one another and they often all say the same essential things. Albert Camus, who struggled in a more serious Resistance than ours, believed that politics is an extension of morality, that the truly moral man is engaged in politics as a natural outcome of his beliefs...
...antiquated melodramatic woodcuts. Three major scenes are mimed in front of a black-and-white American flag, and it perfectly into the even pacing of the play. The most dazzling of Babe's devices concern the scene transitions, all of which are visibly effected by uniformed stagehands, and generally overlap with the action. Climactically, we watch the stage crew change a living room to an office while Fisk and an entire brass band march triumphantly around the stage...
...Overlap. The Geneva accord would end all the costly overlap by establishing a single multilingual international patent application, to be filed with a system of worldwide patent clearing houses. The clearing houses would be set up by the body that drafted the treaty, the United International Bureau for the Protection of Intellectual Property, administrator of the Paris Convention of 1883, under which 79 nations agree to give equal treatment to one another's inventors. Individual nations would retain the right to grant or reject patents, but international patent centers would check the novelty of most inventions, issue recommendations...
...Winning Horse." Determined to bring ITT's far-flung subsidiaries and divisions under New York's control, Geneen set up centralized regional marketing and planning staffs, insisted on detailed monthly business reports from the field, eliminated overlap throughout the company. Ten worldwide ITT plants producing semiconductors, for example, were coordinated under New York's aegis for the first time. Because the company's European manufacturing complex was "our winning horse"-ITT was doing poorly in its U.S.-based manufacturing operations-Geneen decided to ride it especially hard, fused it under a single headquarters located in Brussels...
...work as a dental administrator and my work as an endocrinologist did not overlap most of the time," Greep said...