Word: pert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...college wherewithal, he has worked both part time and full time as an oilfield roustabout and, lately, as an assistant engineer for the Standard Oil Co. He has done well; Standard wants him to come to work permanently after graduation. He has steadily dated pert auburn-haired Sandra Sue Harper, 21, a Cal State classmate, long enough so that they admit to being "serious...
...nepotism, found jobs for every relative around. Today's executives bypass their in-laws for professional managers. Keshub Mahindra is proud of the fact that only five of 12,000 employees are related to him; Mahindra has linked his plants with Telex communications, keeps track of production with PERT (for performance evaluation and review technique), which was originally devised in the U.S. to coordinate production of the Polaris weapons system. Charat Ram took the lead in founding the All-India Management Association to help develop new talent. Says he: "There is a vast shortage of good management talent...
...France: the Werner Cup, symbolic of the American International Team Ski Championship, at Sun Valley, Idaho. Led by pert, 20-year-old Marielle Goitschel, who won both the slalom and giant slalom and finished third in the women's downhill, the French ended with 206 points to Austria's 198. The U.S. team wound up fifth...
...final testimony for the defense came from Dr. Joseph Pert, director of the special problems unit of the El Cerrite Health Department. Pert explained that while marijuana was habit-forming, it was not harmful...
...stick to the historical facts and the good grace to forsake, largely, the flamboyant style that marred his bestselling biographical novels about Van Gogh (Lust for Life) and Michelangelo (The Agony and the Ecstasy). He lapses occasionally by trying to make the plain but amusing Abigail into a pert glamour girl, but he manages to convey the softening influence she had on her crotchety and unbending husband, from the day he first came calling when she was 17 until the moment, 40 years later, when they departed the still unfinished White House. As fictional biographies go, this is a competent...