Word: overlapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them aboard ships that, Dugan writes, were "not built to fit men; the men were warped to fit the ship." In fact, some of them were. In many a country town, an old sailor was readily identifiable by his severe stoop, the result of spending years in the orlop (overlap) deck, which sometimes offered no more than four feet of headroom...
...managed economy, while Republicans espouse more of a market economy; Democrats are likely to believe that spending and deficits create prosperity; while Republicans still worship at the shrine of the sound dollar. None of these are absolutes; in the attempt to win the consensus, parties gladly let their values overlap and intertwine...
Other courses in the first year include, for example, "Human Behavior in Organizations" and "Planning and the Business Environment." This last course deals with the overlap of business and society at large. The issues studied include union controversies, civil rights in relation to personnel and advertising practices, ethics in advertising, business-government relations, the image of business in America, public responsibility of the manager, business abroad, industrial participation in foreign aid, and other topics of broad concern. This emphasis on the interplay between business and society underlines the purpose and aspiration of the Business School: to prepare students for management...
Revlon wants to acquire 30-year-old U.S. Vitamin & Pharmaceutical (vitamins, diabetic products, vascular drugs) for some of the same reasons that have drawn drug companies to cosmetics. Research in the two fields tends to overlap, often producing a cosmetic that a drug firm finds hard to market or a drug that a cosmetics manufacturer is at a loss to understand. Revlon hopes that combined research will turn up products that can be readily retailed in drugstores, which are thoroughly covered by Revlon's crack 168-man sales force...
Phelps said he feels that opening facilities to extension students will not change the undergraduate character of the House. "I don't think the hours that undergraduates and extension students would spend in the House will overlap significantly," he explained...