Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With women, the increases have been more dramatic but fall shorter of reflecting the population. The pools of available women for all positions are substantial and should, again through a vigorous recruiting effort, be drawn on far more fully than they...
...Tung once remarked that it takes an intellectual ten years to rejoin the people, but I suppose the time estimate for students would be much shorter. Only yesterday we arrived here children fresh from suburban hothouses, living contradictions cast up by a society which was twisting us as much as those we were being trained to rule. For all God's dangers, our critique of a "Harvard education" will spring again and again from our struggle to become "ordinary" in the most profound sense of the term...
...victim of overexposure to modern communication: "I'm now going into the lotus position." By the time a salesman arrives to make sure the falsies fit, Connie has gone Girl Scouting, but several other stock characters-including Muriel's former lover, the minuscule Sir Percy Shorter, and a mindless sexpot, Felicity Rumpers-have joined the seedy Wicksteed household for the game of "Who's got them...
...years, the prime mover behind Bloomingdale's has been Marvin Traub, 50, co-leader with Chairman Lawrence Lachman of what has become known throughout U.S. retailing as "the Bloomingdale's gang." Traub, the son of a corsetmaker, was wounded in World War II and came back with one leg shorter than the other; he wears a built-up shoe yet walks briskly and jogs ten minutes daily before leaving his Tudor-style home in Scarsdale. After graduating from Harvard Business School in 1949, he went to work briefly for Alexander's at $100 a week as an assistant to George...
...retired in 1968. Bronk served as a science adviser to Presidents Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy while he headed the National Academy of Sciences from 1950 to 1962. When the Russians launched the first satellite, Sputnik I, in 1957, Bronk sounded a cold war alarm and warned Americans to abandon "shorter work weeks and longer coffee breaks," lest they fall behind the Soviet scientific establishment...