Word: plante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reforms that he intends to accomplish. Though his ultimate goal obviously must be to loosen up France's rigid and exclusive social structure, he will probably stick to relatively concrete proposals. For the workers, he is likely to offer some form of effective participation in the management of the plant, perhaps through strengthened worker-proprietor councils. For the students, he almost certainly will offer a far greater voice in university affairs, plus such reforms as a full-scale modernization of the curriculums; easier entry for children of lower middle-class and working-class parents (presently only about...
Colored Ruthless. Nor was Kennedy's growing unrest over Viet Nam an act. He played the issue for political advantage, to be sure, but he also became increasingly convinced that the massive U.S. military commitment was a blunder that threatened catastrophe. He had helped plant the roots of Johnson's Viet Nam policy during the Kennedy Administration, and he acknowledged it: "But past error is no excuse for its own perpetuation. Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live...
North Rhine-Westphalia have voted to drop such ornate titles as Herr Landgerichtsdireklor (state court director) and be called simply Herr Richter (Mister Judge). Contending that many business titles are nonsensical, the U.S. electronics firm of Honeywell, which has a plant near Frankfurt, printed new calling cards introducing their executives by name only. Many student demonstrators now disdain to address university rectors as Magnifizenz and deans as Spektabilitat, Hans-George Schnitzer, whose own title is Bundesvorsitzender des Fachausschusses fur Umgangsformen-federal chairman of the Expert Committee for Good Behavior-is urging his countrymen to "recognize only those titles earned academically...
...devote the massive plant of City Hospital to the few who still need a charity hospital is to provide them and Boston with a disservice. The care given the poor today at City, while decent, is not adequate. There is no need for a full staff at City anymore, and the result has been that some parts of it are hardly staffed at all. The few patients who must go there suffer...
...William E. Steel has held dialogue sermons once a month for two years. Most of his congregation likes the idea, although newcomers are shocked by the easy give-and-take of discussions. At his Episcopal church in Ignacio, Calif., Vicar Charles Gompertz occasionally stirs up dialogue by stationing a "plant" in the congregation. During a sermon, the plant may stand up and yell: "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard!" Says Gompertz: "It really blows their minds...