Word: prac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students would serve much the same purpose as the back-to-school movement that provides continuing legal education for practicing attorneys (TIME, March 25); it might also enlarge the nation's short supply of trial lawyers by whetting the appetites of fledglings who would otherwise pass up such prac tice in favor of other specialties...
...outstanding athlete in three. Last month, at the Los Angeles Invitational meet, he soared over the bar at 16 ft. 9½ in., to break the world record set in 1963 by Finland's Pentti Nikula. Not bad for a 25-year-old wine salesman who has not prac ticed in more than a year and knows that each time he jumps may be his last...
Nowadays, Johnson is not only prac ticing Keynesia? economics but is pursuing policies of Pressure and persuasion that go far beyond anything Keynes ever dreamed of. In 1965 Johnson vigorously wielded the wage-price guide-lines" to hold wages and prices down, forced producers of aluminum, copper and wheat to retreat from price hikes by threatening to dump the Government's commodity stockpiles and battled the nation s persistent balance-of-payments deficit ,with the so-called "voluntary" controls on spending and lending abroad. Some Keynesians believe that these policies violate Keynes's theories because they are basically microeconomic instead...
...figures. Not Gary Player. Gary started the tournament by sinking a 10-ft. putt for an eagle on the par-five, 493-yd. first hole. Five birdies, a par and two more birdies gave him a fantastic 28- nine under par-for the front nine. The back nine was prac tically a debacle by comparison; Player had to settle for an 18-hole score of 62, Biting his lip, Player sighed, "I thought I'd break...
...promises to revolutionize many industrial processes, Physicist Donald M. Mattox of Albuquerque's Sandia Corp. is faced with a persistent question. "People keep asking me why no one thought of it before," he says, and he has quit trying to find an answer. His best guess is that prac tical metallurgists knew too little theory to tackle the problem, while basic research scientists, who know enough theory, were unconcerned with such practical work...