Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...find what makes them go to a doctor at any time of life. Main findings: they go an average of 4.8 times a year, and the commonest reason (one-sixth of all visits) is for a checkup. Though heart and artery diseases are the leading cause of death, they rank fourth among reasons for seeing the doctor; mental illness is fifth...
...sits on the foam-rubber throne of Dunlop's empire is big (6 ft., 200 Ibs.), grey-haired George Edward Beharrell, 55. In his realm he finds one flaw: Dunlop sales rank but fifth in the U.S.* Last week George Beharrell made a big move to correct this flaw. He announced that Dunlop will spend $5,500,000 to modernize its plant at Buffalo and streamline its U.S. sales organization...
...world naturally looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is someone outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; someone strangely enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention, moving independently of the ordinary currents of human action; a being readily capable of violent revolt or supreme sacrifice, a man, solitary, austere, to whom existence is no more than a duty, yet a duty to be faithfully discharged. He was indeed a dweller upon...
...phone calls from union members complaining about the vote; half a dozen petitions, each bearing 75 to 100 signatures and asking for reconsideration of the proposal, landed on his desk. He called an emergency session of his 20-member executive committee, and another membership meeting was scheduled. When the rank-and-file turned out to vote on the wage cut last week, their changed temper was obvious. Warned one opponent: "This is a deal you're going to have to live with for a long time." Replied a heckler: "At least we'll be living...
...Government agencies gave $1,362,000 for new ideas-including a $275 award (and a promotion) for one selfless civil servant who suggested abolishing his own $12,000 job. Estimated saving to Uncle Sam from such suggestions: $44 million. In many companies employee suggestions have won equal rank with research. Says a Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. executive: "Our experience has been that we get a higher return on the ideas of our employees than we do from the development of a new product...