Word: previously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Intransience developed at the beginning of this year however, when the White House declared that data from the Hardtack II series of four underground nuclear explosions the previous October invalidated the findings of the Geneva experts. The main result showed that primary waves were weaker than expected and therefore were harder to distinguish from smaller quakes. The Russians steadily refused to study this data until last week, claiming it was merely an attempt by the U.S. to sabotage the conference. Certainly the way and manner in which this information was released by the U.S. appeared to be deliberately misleading...
...before the Yale game and, according to a leader in the Senior group, "It is impossible for a football player to think about a deadline at that time." No member of the varsity football team was nominated this year for Marshal, a change from the pattern of previous years...
Gates, an investment banker in private life, recently has been serving as deputy secretary after a previous stint as secretary of the Navy...
...Question of Compromise. I am not opposed to compromise. It does seem to me, however, that if we announce in advance of any negotiation or any crisis that compromise is an end in itself we will reward extreme positions. This point was really an elaboration of the previous one. It was a criticism of a formalistic approach to negotiations which confuses negotiating techniques with purpose. My argument was that we should stop using slogans like compromise, flexibility or rigidity and debate the substance of the program to which they refer...
...Ward Howell Associates, a firm that specializes in finding executives for business and industry. Ward Howell invited suggestions from Leonard Bernstein, Rudolf Bing, Sir Thomas Beecham, et al. With a list of 35 candidates to work from, the firm set up interviews, started vetting applicants on the basis of previous success, experience and age-35 to 50 preferred. The rigid combination of musical and managerial talent proved hard to find: one candidate, a lawyer, was washed out because he was high on executive ability but low on musical experience; an opera-company director knew his music thoroughly but seemed...