Word: referring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...refer to the problem of inadequate protection for our landing strips and encampments in Viet Nam. Our soldiers have been paying tribesmen $5 a month to protect them. This is outrageous. In this age of scientific advancement, we surely could provide sufficient protection for our men and our bases anywhere. Westmoreland could set up electric eyes at certain intervals and guard these positions with only a few soldiers, making an almost foolproof fence around the base or the airstrip...
...that output per unit of labor in British steel in "probably only 50% of the U.S. level." In the port of London, there are 444 different employers of dockworkers--each one is too small to use large scale machinery, each one refuses to merge with the others. The British refer to their salesmen as "spivs," "bagmen", or "touts" and their salesmanship often reflects this disdain. Auto companies tell of suppliers who refuse business because added orders might "upset stability" of production. And the Economist describes a visit to a British plant in which "you will be taken aside...
...much practice as he does. "Open-heart surgery," say Dr. Eiseman and Dr. Spencer, "unfortunately has a totally undeserved role as a professional status symbol." It is no field, they add, "for those who follow the fads." In recognition of the problem, cardiologists in smaller cities are beginning to refer more of their patients to the busy surgeons in the big centers...
Authors of the petition claim that B.U. President Case, who met with News editors last Monday, was only stalling for time when he promised not to use his prerogative to edit the paper and agreed to refer the question of student control to the Trustees, who will meet March 19. By circulating the petition now, Harris feels, the students may be able to force Case's hand before the March 19 Trustees' meeting, by which time student opinion may have subsided...
...handy weapon but has a grasp of its intricacies that is roughly equal to Giscard's knowledge of military strategy. De Gaulle has come increasingly under the influence of Jacques Rueff, a gold standard devotee and a close economic adviser. This fact has prompted some Paris economists to refer sarcastically to the present as the Golden Age of French diplomacy...