Word: recommends
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...Civil War covered exclusively by Peter Sellers," but in adolescence he was claimed by comedy. In the R.A.F. he amused airmen by imitating a series of officers and enlisted men. When he applied for a job at the BBC, he took the precaution of getting two radio stars to recommend him by phone. The voices of both actors were played by Peter Sellers. At the BBC he found colleagues who gave lunacy a good name. On radio and film, the members of the Goon Show climbed Mount Everest from the inside, scrubbed a field with soap and took a phonograph...
...foreign acquisitions of U.S. banks, such as the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp.'s purchase of 41% of New York's Marine Midland. Financiers now are worried that the Crocker deal might push Congress to erect new barriers. Indeed, the General Accounting Office is expected to recommend next month that Congress reinstate the moratorium. That would limit the activities of British banks in the U.S. at a time when the international branches of major American banks are aggressively attacking the United Kingdom market. The British will doubtless argue that any moves to block their development...
...aging board of directors that has no compulsory retirement policy, no adequate pension plan and no tradition of honoring emeritus directors. So each board member hangs on and on, becoming increasingly shortsighted as he becomes increasingly sclerotic. Such a corporation, no matter how large and powerful, would not recommend itself...
...came home last week with the Nimitz. Said Owens: "While we have been able to cheerfully handle the arduous shipboard conditions, we rebel against our inability to provide our families back home with sufficient funds to provide for their wellbeing. It is very hard for a commanding officer to recommend to his men that they apply for food stamps or other welfare and at the same time ask them to be ready to fight...
...Others recommend more advising for women, perhaps by installing advisers especially able to cope with women's issues. Dean Fox says he always asks each House master to include in his tutoring staff one such person. When pressed, though, Fox admits that this year he forgot to remind all of the masters to hire a women's adviser. Even when Fox does remember, few women student residents are aware of this service, primarily because women's advisers are not labeled as such. Fox says he does it this way because he prefers to "handle it (sexual harassment and women...