Word: prospectus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prospectus, despite the computer committee's 72 pages of explication, is not all rosy, which makes it the more remarkable that Mosteller can declare, "We'd like to be able to say, 'The equipment is available...
...prospectus of the project said that it would attempt to "determine the nature of the relationships between the government and weapons contractors in the acquisition of advanced weapons." The researchers hoped to find out how these relationships affected the cost and development time of weapons, and to recommend improvements in the system of awarding defense contracts...
...other charges. The average front-end buyer is barely aware of this fact. Said Subcommittee Chairman John Sparkman, an Alabama Democrat who also heads the full Senate Banking and Currency Committee: "Ordinarily, the salesman is pushing you so hard that you don't even look at the prospectus until you have bought the shares. And then you don't understand it when you do look at it." Up to 40% of all front-end customers quit within three years and take a loss, since much of their investment has gone into the salesmen's pockets. A spokesman...
...prospectus says that the Summer Players "feel that with Aristophanes, to be irreverent is to be faithful." This production is not faithful to Aristophanes' irreverence. For Aristophanes, while he was an expert practitioner of the calculated gross-out, also dared to scream insults in the face of public opinion. And that, as he says himself in this play, is what placed him head and shoulders over his fellow comedy-writers...
Last week, when Pope Paul named 27 new cardinals, thereby raising membership in the college to an alltime high of 120, he fulfilled this prospectus to the letter. Archbishops Pierre Veuillot of Paris and Corrado Ursi of Naples-cities that over the centuries became accustomed to having cardinals-were elevated to the purple, along with 14 Vatican diplomats and curial officials. Archbishop Justinus Darmajuwana, 52, of Semarang, becomes the first Indonesian to sit in the college; German-born Archbishop Jose Clemente Maurer, 67, of Sucre will be the first Bolivian. Berlin's Archbishop Alfred Bengsch, who by choice lives...