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Word: shap (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nonprofit, nonpartisan institution has had a profound effect on government and the economy, has helped shap-national policy under both Democratic and Republican administrations. Brookings' experts laid the groundwork for present-day government accounting procedures, worked out the present system of congressional apportionment, produced the first U.S. budget under Budget Director Charles Gates Dawes. The institution also serves as a lending library of specialized technical talent. Brookings' staffers and alumni of its graduate school have advised virtually every executive agency and congressional committee in Washington on subjects ranging from highways to health insurance. When the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THE RIZE OF ECONOMIC ADVISES | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

...became editorial director of Look (TIME, Jan. 26), President & Editor Gardner ("Mike") Cowles told Look's staff that Tasker would "be the top editorial executive of the company." Tasker believes that the editorial department should be completely independent and not a satellite of the circulation department. But "Shap" Shapiro, a popular and determined "results player," could point to a slight dip in Look's newsstand sales to support his contrary view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Shake-up at Look | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

...professors drew a shap distinction between Senator Nixon's fund and that of Governor Stevenson, and ended by starting that Nixon had "set a vicious example...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Columbia Profs Hit Nixon 'Slush' Fund | 10/7/1952 | See Source »

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