Word: recommenders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...learned about TV from the inside as an associate director at CBS. Says he: "I sincerely feel that I'm in a position to help raise television standards." Unfortunately, TV's standards tend to drag down Scheuer's own; simply finding five or six shows to recommend each day means including some very doubtful ones. On some days prospects look so thin that TV Key simply advises: "This is the right evening to catch up with a good book or a good movie...
Releasing Steam. This was one of the most explosive bits of creative Marxism ever expounded by a Communist ruler. In Mao's eyes, toleration of an occasional strike presumably had at least two things to recommend it. It would give 1) the hard-pressed Chinese masses a chance to let off a bit of steam without doing too much damage, and 2) the government a line on potential revolutionaries. But, as Hungary and Poland had demonstrated, Moscow could only look with horror on the concept of "beneficial small strikes" in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Rumania. (When Khrushchev...
Every department is guilty of what the Committee of Eight long ago noted as an "internal tendency to conform." Departments all too often recommend for promotion those men who most nearly come up to their rigid motions of their standards. And it is still an all too common practice for an aging professor to pick a fair haired young boy out of GSAS and groom his as his successor...
...interest-free loan for five years, Interior Secretary Fred Seaton testified. He said that he had been against the write-off from the start, that Idaho Power did not need the tax break. While Seaton conceded that Gray's action was legally correct, "I reiterate that I did recommend against issuance of the certificates and would do so again...
...ROUTES will be granted to more foreign airlines. State Department has tentatively decided to recommend that CAB permit Belgium s Sabena to fly beyond New York to San Francisco...