Word: spend
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...anthropologist previously, Curle decided after World War II that "I didn't want to spend the rest of my life studying societies. I wanted to study the people who make up society." He returned to Oxford, earned a Ph.D. in anthropology and psychology in 1950, and went to work teaching social psychology at Oxford. But social psychology left him restless. Before long, he switched to education. "Many social ills might be prevented," he argues. "They could be prevented through the wise use of education." Curle transferred to the University of Exeter, teaching education and psychology...
...finance political campaigns-honestly, adequately and from a far broader base-is surely one of U.S. democracy's biggest unsolved problems as it enters another presidential election year. As the nation grows, candidates must spend more and more to reach more and more people; while TV now puts office seekers in every living room, the enormous cost drains party budgets. Given most voters' financial apathy, the net result is a qualification for office unspecified in the Constitution: a candidate must now be rich or have rich friends or run the risk of making himself beholden to big contributors...
...include drills on sales and problem-solving techniques as well as "effective listening," the program has drawn more than 500,000 students from such companies as Pfizer, General Electric, Burlington Industries and Eastern Airlines. Just Like Golf. Eying the $6 billion to $8 billion a year that companies now spend on training programs, Xerox got a foot in the classroom door when it bought a Cambridge, Mass, outfit called Basic Systems Inc. three years ago for $5,600,000. Founded by a group of behavioral psychologists at work on applying modern teaching theory to classroom usage, Basic Systems has quadrupled...
Biggest seller by far is the listening course, which a plant or office can buy from Xerox for a basic $1,200 fee plus a small charge ($1.80 to $3.50) for each enrollee. Xerox sells its customers on the fact that managers spend 45% of their time listening to others; yet let most of what they hear go in one ear and out the other. The half-day drill brings marked improvement: "retention" rates in one group of salesmen (notoriously poor listeners) rose from 20% to 84% after the course. Jarman was so enthusiastic about the program that he ordered...
When Lawyer Stephen Greer-close friend and adviser to President Paul Roudebush-vanishes from the capital, the press and Washington officialdom suspect the worst. Is he in financial trouble? Has he fled the country to avoid exposure as a homosexual? If not, why did he spend so many nights in a certain apartment with a university professor? If President Roudebush knows the answer, he isn't talking-not even to Press Secretary Eugene Culligan, the narrator of this latest example of presidential pulp fiction...