Word: relearning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real job, said Luckman, "is not to sell the enterprise system, but to put some enterprise into the selling system . . . [Businessmen] must relearn the science of fighting for orders ... At the very least, we should inflict as much wear & tear on the soles of our shoes as we do on the seats of our pants." To help sales, Luckman thought that business should cut prices where possible, take inventory losses where necessary. Costs would have to be shaved, of course, and the way to do that, he said, was to boost output. There must be "a willingness to expand...
...alphabet "with 24 new consonants and 18 new vowels" and based on the rule of "One Sound One Letter." The layman, he warns, will resist change to the death; after having gone to the trouble of learning to spell cough and tough, he will not agree to relearn them even...
Dick Martin, converted end who had to relearn the duties of a blocking back, a task he had left behind him in his Freshman year, will be the brains of the Munger backfield, barking out Penn's signals...
...France realization came too late to save the Third Republic and democracy. Bewildered by what had happened to them, the French people needed time to relearn the lessons they had forgotten. For the present the most that could be salvaged was the nucleus of the French nation, and even this was in doubt. To try to save as much as they could, by whatever means they could, was the self-appointed task of the self-appointed leaders of what was left of France...