Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What is more, top Cowlesmen think so much like their bosses that they get little direct supervision. Other than a formal meeting every month or so and occasional spot conferences, John leaves his eleven-man editorial-page staff pretty much alone. Des Moines rarely even bothers to check a stand with Mike. Instead, the staffs in both cities meet to hash out editorials, hear every man's views, try to reach a consensus, nearly always end up speaking in a Cowles tone of voice...
...world news is provided by radio cable from Nationalist China's Central News Agency in Taipei; many of its features come from 40 uniformed correspondents in forward posts; its local news is gathered by two fulltime reporters. Counting delivery boys, Cheng Ch'i's staff numbers 70. Average salary: $10 a month, plus free firewood, rice, cooking oil, salt, clothing and cigarettes...
When Smiths was founded three years ago as the juvenile annex of Borocourt (mental) Hospital, its regular staff was soon plagued with a familiar problem. Ten skilled (and overworked) nurses were unable to get really close to the hospital's 40 seriously disturbed children. Said Borocourt's physician-superintendent, Dr. Gerald O'Gorman: "If we're very lucky, we may get the children to form an attachment to an animal-but what is vitally needed is relationship with a human being...
...nearby town of High Wycombe. There the public hall was gaily decorated, pungent with the odor of cakes and candy, loud with a piano thumping out nursery rhymes and rock 'n' roll. Father Christmas himself arrived with a bag of toys. A year ago the regular Smiths staff might not have been able to get their patients into the hall at all. This year everybody-the shiny-eyed Big Sisters included-enjoyed a wonderful holiday party...
...defected and revealed the existence of a Red spy ring that had vacuumed Canada for strategic information, had shipped samples of pure Uranium 235 off to Moscow. Officially, Zarubin was cleared of complicity in the case. While he served in Washington, the U.S. Government occasionally expelled segments of his staff for espionage, but no one ever hung anything on Georgy...