Word: run
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Permitting a member to run for the board of directors if he can muster a petion with 100 members' signatures...
...stockholders will continue to make the initial nominations for the directors, but a mechanism for additional nominations will be provided. If the stockholders' nominations go uncontested, their slate would automatically take office. However, if a student wished to run for the board, he simply would have to collect the signatures of 100 members on a petition to have his name appear on the ballot...
...president should operate. Ford's young executives have always admired G.M.'s all-around management strength, but they were startled when a G.M. man was brought in to be their boss. Their dismay increased when they discovered that Knudsen, a gentlemanly but strong-willed executive, intended to run the company practically at the plant level. Instead of sitting in his office ruling on policy, he took to haunting the Ford design center, arriving there as early as 7:15 a.m. He ordered one change in the grille of the 1970 Thunderbird that made it resemble the Pontiac...
...people under 30 are not watching movies, they are probably off making them. At universities all over the country, gymnasiums have been converted into sound stages, classrooms into editing cubbies. Although most student efforts are not good enough for general distribution, an occasional film is given a limited commercial run. A current example is a feature called Who's That Knocking at My Door?, made over a period of two years at New York University by Martin Scorsese, 26, a graduate student. The film's several weaknesses and excesses prevent it from being totally successful. But it introduces...
...much to the credit of Director Francis Ford Coppola that he refused to accept that kind of prefabricated fakery. Bundling a handful of actors and technicians into a fleet of cars, he drove from New York to Colorado, filming a story about a young married woman on the run from responsibility. The result, called The Rain People, has such a strong sense of the U.S. as a dramatic character that Coppola's people tend to melt into the landscape...