Word: reach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kennedy before him, has complained about the lack of new ideas from the State Department. Rusk, because of temperament and pressure of time, has been unable to build a strong, creative secretariat that can anticipate problems before they reach the fire-bell stage or recognize when a policy has outlived its usefulness. Building a flexible, imaginative second-level team that will not shy from new approaches will now be Katzenbach's most pressing task...
...proposal for reform must be based on what the Pentagon has gradually learned about its manpower supply, McNamara insisted. He divided the 1.8 million men who reach eligibility for service each year into three parts...
...most likely to depend on the doctor's nationality. In U.S. hospitals, the preferred approach is to "extinguish" the offending veins by stripping them out in tedious operations that take up to twelve hours and leave the footsore surgeon himself a candidate for varicose veins. In Europe, doctors reach for hypodermics, hoping to harden the veins and cure the trouble quickly with simple injections...
Benbow first saw Williams in 1960, when the Big Cat was knocked out in the third round by Sonny Listen. Even on his back, Williams was impressive. Part Negro, part Cherokee, he stands 6 ft.2½in. and weighs 215 lbs.; his reach is 83 in. (4 in. longer than Clay's), and his 48-in. chest tapers to a 32-in. waist. "That fella could be great if he was trained properly," Benbow decided, and in 1962 bought up his contract for $20,000. Over the next two years, Williams won seven fights, lost only one, developed...
...profits were off 14%, to $62 million, but its directors raised the quarterly dividend from 500 to 600, and they would not have done so unless they felt that the company could comfortably stick with the higher dividend. Industry analysts expect that steel production this year will reach another historic high of just over 130 million tons, and that output next year will be about equal...