Word: rein
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Give imagination free rein...
Some companies allot to research a fixed proportion of sales (from less than 1% for transportation companies to more than 6% for big electrical and chemical manufacturers), give research directors a free rein in pursuing likely leads. Esso Research measures each venture by its "probability ratio," i.e., the value of the potential product, multiplied by the probability of successful research, divided by the cost of the work...
...Killer." With free rein to use anything he had seen or heard, Donovan submitted about 20 or 30 pages of his manuscript for standard security clearance; otherwise he showed it to no Government official. In the home stretch of his 160,000-word writing job, he worked a 10 a.m.-to-3 a.m. schedule, left Harper no time to submit galley proofs on the last four chapters. Last week, as the results began simmering, Reporter Donovan relaxed with his wife Martha and his three children (Patricia, 13, Peter, 9, Amy, 8). "This was a killer," he said. "I wouldn...
Tito has already shown himself skilled in pursuing the direction Moscow now wants to take. He has found a way of talking to the outside world. He has kept a tight security rein on his country without some of the more flagrant severities of Moscow. It is true that he has botched the running of his economy; the peasants are still poor and dissatisfied. But in this he is no worse than the Russians (neither dares admit that the difficulty is in the system itself). And he has shown agility and a certain style in diplomacy...
Last week there were no Bryans to argue the matter, but among U.S. bankers and businessmen, the debate raged hotly once again: Is the Government's tight control of the money supply a rein on inflation or a noose strangling the growth of the economy? Plenty cried "noose...