Word: sheeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early days of a new Administration, "the nation has a sense that a page in history has been turned, and the new President has a blank sheet upon which to write." So says Kermit Gordon, president of Washington's Brookings Institution, in Agenda for the Nation, a 620-page study released last week. In no field is this truer than in foreign affairs...
...candidate, Richard Nixon left frustratingly vague the precise foreign-policy lines he might pursue. As President, Nixon may find that lack of commitment something of an asset. Pinned down by few definite pledges, he will have considerable latitude in filling the blank sheet. The world's leaders are well aware of this. Moscow, though initially suspicious of Nixon, is already dropping hints about renewing U.S.Soviet arms-control talks. More surprisingly, Peking last week proposed reopening the Warsaw talks with the U.S. on Feb. 20; the meeting would be the first between the two countries in 13 months...
Swift's depressing balance sheet is a direct result of deep cuts into the market made by streamlined and strategically located smaller packers, which now number 4,000. As in steel and some other basic industries, the moderately sized companies have proved to be nimbler and more imaginative than some of the hidebound old giants. Medium-sized outfits like Iowa Beef Packers, Inc.-which was listed by FORTUNE among the top ten companies for return on invested capital in 1967-have built their slaughterhouses and packing facilities close to livestock farms. Frequently offering faster deliveries than the larger firms...
Quirm is Brian's greatest rooter. "I like to consider Brian my very best friend," Quirm said, as he tucked in the bottom sheet of Dowling's bed. "I like to help Brian out. He's so helpless around the house, you know...
...They had a centerfold with the four-letter words in there. I thought, if they want to do it, it's all right, the hell, it's not my paper. I wish they had been here thirty years ago, they'd have thought my paper was a Sunday School sheet. I was in here the day the police came in and confiscated the papers. Since then, the police have quieted down, I guess they've read it several times and they don't think...