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...more important ones are passed on to the overall "screening committee," made up of three union representatives, and three men from top management, usually the president. The screening committee's specific assignment is to handle the more important suggestions, and talk over problems of production; actually its discussions spill over into questions of sales, competition, the state of the industry, in fact all aspects of the company. (Only business that is specifically the union's, such as grievances and wage demands, is excepted). As a result of screening committee give and take, the employees have a much clearer idea...
...official four-page outline of the party study breaks downs into sections on the history, composition and organization of the Party, its ideology, its relation to Soviet society, and its implications as a world Communist movement. IN reality, most of the studies spill over, several of these areas and no special effort is made to confine them...
...shifty-eyed gambler who walked into Publisher Sevellon Brown's Providence papers last September had a frontpage story to spill. Pasquale Borino wanted to fill in the Journal and Evening Bulletin on a mob which he said was running the lottery, sweepstakes, race-track and baseball-pool rackets in Rhode Island. But when Bulletin City Editor Leo Son-deregger tried to track down Borino's leads, he found they cut across state lines and involved shadowy national figures...
...assault on the emotions, The Hasty Heart succeeds by never affronting the intelligence, never letting its sentiment spill over. Patricia Neal's controlled intensity suits the nurse's role well, and Ronald Reagan plays the Yank with the right brashness and sincerity...
Ulcer sufferers seem to have an overactive vagus nerve. When it is working too hard, the nerve causes the stomach to secrete too much acid, contract too energetically and spill its contents too fast-perhaps within an hour. The acid irritates an old ulcer or starts a new one. Cutting the vagus nerve is one surgical device to slow down the contractions and the acid output. Dr. Grimson combined this operation with another which short-circuited much of the ulcer area...