Word: stay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ties save diplomatic relations. Students from both countries have returned to their homelands. The last Soviet Friendship Delegation to China, in November, was an exercise in hostility rather than hospitality. Russian and East European journalists have been roughed up with such monotonous regularity in China that they now "just stay indoors." Both sides have made appeals for the overthrow of the other's regime. Neither side is above pettiness. The Russians have accused Mao of being a lousy, unreadable poet; they sometimes pull out the microphone plugs when Chinese are speaking at international meetings and house the Chinese delegations...
...growing shortage of drivers. In Los Angeles, the 900-cab Yellow fleet has a 60% annual turnover of drivers. The two biggest cab companies in Memphis man only 200 of their 300 taxis. Philadelphia's Yellow Cab Co. pays employees a $25 bounty for recruiting new drivers who stay on the job at least 90 days. So serious is the shortage that companies which employed 75% full-time drivers to 25% part-timers ten years ago, find the proportions rapidly reversing. Nowadays the man up front is quite possibly a moonlighting actor, minister, artist, teacher or student...
Feilding also recommends that the seminaries and churches conduct ceaseless self-studies to make sure that their procedures, and their products, are up to date. "Few businesses or industrial concerns could stay in business were they not to subject themselves to regular self-scrutiny," he points out. Yet, "taking all the churches together, there are no agreed educational standards for the practice of the ministry...
...Fewer than one-fourth of the patients have to be readmitted. Though Dr. Laing hates being drawn into the numbers game, he asserts that these results are as good as those from intensive drug treatment, if not better. Too many drug-treated schizophrenics, he says, have to stay on drugs indefinitely, "in a biochemical Straitjacket," and their readmission rate is higher...
...President David S. Lewis, 49, will be his No. 2 man as well as Douglas' new chairman. Donald Douglas Sr., who had rebuffed McDonnell takeover moves in the past, will be "honorary chairman" of the merged company, keep an office as "founder-consultant" at Douglas. Donald Jr. will stay on as Douglas' president-but Lewis will become chief executive officer...