Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from a chronic and progressive anxiety neurosis, for as long as I can recall . . . [I have used] barbiturate sedation of various types to control myself in public for about three years; and during the past two-three months, the condition has got out of hand . . . with steady progression and prospect of complete loss of control. It became . . . apparent to me . . . that death is far preferable to institutional treatment . . . Right or wrong, this brings us to the present...
Henceforth, such items as French gloves and cheeses, Italian cork and coffin handles, will be admitted to the British market without quota restrictions. Swiss hoteliers rubbed their hands at the prospect of British tourists with enough money to spend a week or more instead of a few days. "A British accent" glowed London's Daily Express, "will no longer be a passport to the worst table in the restaurant...
Despite all the sound & fury, the prospect was still that Bohlen would be confirmed by an overwhelming margin. G.O.P. leaders on Capitol Hill didn't want to repudiate an Eisenhower appointment...
...Last Resort. Because few companies have adequate facilities to give exhaustive examinations, many send executives to such outside clinics as Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital, Boston's Lahey Clinic and New York's Life Extension Examiners. For many hard-driving executives, however, the prospect of spending three days idling in bed is too deadly an ordeal. To take care of them, there is an entirely new kind of clinic, where prescriptions are mixed with...
Major stumbling-blocks to men entering retailing are the tough training programs. College graduates recoil at the prospect of six to 18 more months of detailed training during which time they will perform no responsible function, but even business school graduates are required to submit to the technical merchandising instruction...