Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defeat of the poll tax amendment. And conservatives will still be able to use the devices they have used in the past, although, hopefully, greater liberal majorities and a more efficient liberal machine--partially DSG organized--will at least equalize the previously disproportionate amount of parliamentarian talent which conservatives...
Once again, the class did not distribute itself the way the Deans had hoped, Watson said, and some juggling had to be done to make each House "equal in talent." The low number of applications to Dunster and Kirkland brought about new adjustments in the selection process that gave them special priviledges...
...costing $1,440 a day. Mickey Mantle, at $100,000 a year, was resting his aching legs on the bench. Roger Maris, a $72,000-a-year man, was sprawled in an easy chair in Independence, Mo., nursing a pulled hamstring muscle. Catcher Elston Howard, $70,000 worth of talent, was out of action for six weeks after an operation for bone chips in his elbow. To replace Howard, the Yankees shipped two players off to Kansas City in exchange for H. R. ("Doc") Edwards, whose credentials include a lifetime batting average of .244 and a tour of duty...
McKeen's 16-year term as president will be a tough act to follow. Under his leadership, Pfizer grew from a $47 million specialized drug firm in 1949 into a highly diversified company whose sales reached $480 million last year. Powers, however, has already demonstrated his talent in an important supporting role. In 1951, impressed by Pfizer's growing number of unsolicited foreign orders-, which accounted for $10 million annually in sales-he persuaded McKeen to allow him to begin building an overseas operation. "I figured that if we could do $10 million worth of business without seeking...
...trivial bibliography. Despite the glib slogans--"planning for people," "urban renewal without human renewal cannot work"--the problems of poverty and discrimination rest in a stratosphere of generality. The New Boston's designers outline a series of thoroughly acceptable and thoroughly unoriginal goals: "Break down discriminatory barriers that waste talent, inhibit motivation, limit educational achievement..." or "Eliminate adult illiteracy." Very nice. Very necessary. But never do they say how these are to be accomplished...