Word: publically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Above all, by his academic and administrative reform, he brought about both a major change in the contemporary Harvard student's attitude towards his education and a comparable change in the attitude of the public towards the University...
Since the Federal Communications Commission was set up to look after the public interest as affected by the broadcasting business, how could all those rivers of payola flood the land without provoking so much as a "tut, tut" from the commissioners? Scoring the FCC (and the Federal Trade Commission as well), the New York Herald Tribune's Washington Columnist Roscoe Drummond wrote: "They were supposed to be watching, and it wasn't until after they began to be scorched by public opinion that they showed any evidence that they thought they had much to do about...
...good result of the television scandals came to light: a growing demand for news and public affairs programs, dubbed "truth shows." NBC announced a weekly public affairs program in prime evening time on topics ranging from alcoholism to the summit. Plans were jelling for TV Critic John Crosby to appear on a new CBS show devoted to books, arts, entertainment. Edward R. Murrow's longtime associate, Fred W. Friendly, told New York Herald Tribune Columnist Marie Torre: "Even the elevator operators here at CBS look at us differently. It's as if we've been...
...position in world trade. "It is a plain economic fact," said Sinclair Oil Vice President Millard E. Stone, "that the country can no longer afford to let management be handcuffed by archaic work rules which prevent maximum efficiency, nor by the kind of uneconomic wage increases which subject the public to further inflationary pressures. Our continued failure to recognize the impact of labor costs on our competitive standing has brought us to the point where we stand to lose our domestic and foreign markets...
Another warning came from Professor W. W. Rostow of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for International Studies, who advocated "sharply increased public expenditures" for both defense and foreign aid. Russia's superior growth rate and her power-bent use of it, Rostow said, threaten the U.S. on half a dozen fronts, ranging from brush-fire wars to all-out attack, political penetration of underdeveloped areas and "diplomatic blackmail." Worst of all, said Rostow, Russia is creating among neutrals the "psychological image of an ardent competitor closing fast on a front runner who prefers to go down...