Word: tab
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trim tab of the book's title is the small, hinged section on a ship's rudder that helps to steer the vessel. Willens, a real estate developer and onetime textile machinery manufacturer, contends that businessmen are America's trim tab. "Business is the most flexible and change-oriented segment of our society," he writes, and "possesses inordinate power to influence the direction of our national enterprise...
...consider the nuclear arms race to be an unfortunate fact of life," he writes. "We must be as objective, pragmatic, flexible and unafraid of change as the decision makers who simply stopped making the Edsel." It is still to be seen, however, whether business executives will become the trim tab Willens wants...
Officials say other causes for the schools financial problems include a lack of wealthy alumni to tab, a lows student to instructor ratio, a small endowment and a heavy reliance on tuition for revenue. Only the Law School gets more of its budget from tuition then GSD's 57 percent...
...when the actor Kirk Douglas brought a party of eight into Sahid's establishment, 5,400 dinars (about $45) hardly seemed a fitting tab to present to Spartacus. So Sahid made it 54,000 and requested dollars. The joint has been padlocked...
...NOTEBOOK The Crimson outshot Wesleyan 52-5. The icewomen upped their overall record to 11-7-1... They square off against Cornell in Ithaca Friday night. At Wesleyan Harvard 7 4 3-14 Wesleyan Tab...