Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...provide increases ranging from 3% to 22 i% for 1,700,000 federal employees. On Cabinet-level salaries, the committee recommended an increase of $10,000 a year-up from $7,500 in the House version-to $35,000, to attract top talent to Government service. Approval by the full Senate was expected this week. > Raised, in a 48-to-21 Senate vote, the national debt ceiling from $315 billion to a record $324 billion for the coming fiscal year. >Authorized, by a 78-to-3 Senate vote, a $5.2 billion space budget. Before the final vote, a move...
...Only. When Auric first took on the weighty title of Administrateur de la Réunion des Théátres Lyriques Nationaux, he took on a ponderous load of problems as well (TIME, April 27, 1962). Mired in a vast swamp of bureaucracy, militant unions and second-rate talent, the state-operated Paris Opera had foundered helplessly for nearly two decades. Five postwar administrators had promised revolution, only to sink quietly into the morass. Some tried staging productions à la Folies-Bergère, featuring flights of ballerinas being hoisted to heaven on wires, madly flapping their arms...
...coasting through the film ever so lightly. Early on, before the first fissures appear, he issues a nimble challenge to his costar: "Are you proposing to pit your crude animal instincts against intelligence, culture and breeding?" Unfortunately Brando answers yes, then lumbers on to demonstrate how a potentially great talent can petrify through miscasting and misuse. In one scene he attempts to seduce the mayor's daughter by performing a squalid striptease. Later, posing as a mentally defective prince, he gibbers like a traumatized gorilla and has to be spoon-fed. Then, pretending to be a crippled, self-pitying...
...read to a student assembly. He heard not a clap of it, having been deaf since birth. He attends Evanston's college-sized Township High, reads lips so fluently that some classmates are unaware of his deafness. Hugely versatile, Jeffrey was a state winner in the Science Talent Search for his experiment on fast evaporation, won a Carnegie Tech creative-writing prize for an essay on Salinger and Kafka, a national prize for a one-act play, and a letter for wrestling. He will major in chemistry at Oberlin...
...most thorough report to date on who makes how much in Europe. After surveying the middle managers of 462 companies in seven key countries, the questioners concluded that the best-paid managers are the English and the worst-rewarded are the Dutch, who have a surfeit of management talent...