Word: task
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...process of sifting and shifting to find the right combination will continue. It is something only a crew coach can understand, and even he cannot explain it to the outsider. Bolles describes the task as "something you just see, or feel, or smell," but the job is not quite as nebulous as that. It consists of trying all the possible combinations until you hit upon the one that works best, but even when it happens you never know quite why it should be that...
Four days later Johnson followed up that threat with a major personnel change which looked like the first crackdown. Vice Admiral Arthur W. Radford, wartime task-group commander, was relieved of his post as Vice Chief of Naval Operations and made Commander in Chief of the stripped-down Pacific Fleet (TIME, April 4). Able, popular "Raddy" Radford would get the four stars of a full admiral, but officers of the Navy and the other services got the point: Radford had been the most articulate, determined foe of what the Navy regards as an Air Force threat to the functions...
...keep up with scientific progress has subjected it to terrible dangers. "The scale of events around (man) assumed gigantic proportions while he remained about the same size. By comparison therefore he actually became much smaller. . . . The need was to discipline an array of gigantic and turbulent facts. To this task we have certainly so far proved unequal...
Thus was written off-or indefinitely postponed-what many had hoped would be the chief long-range result of U.S. aid to Western Europe. The OEEC turned its back on European integration to face a less important but more urgent task: how to become independent...
...Hoover task force report, awaiting approval by the full commission, suggested some further shifts. The Federal Reserve Board's power to fix stock-market margins would be transferred to the Securities & Exchange Commission, and the Reserve Board cut from seven to three members. At the same time, the board would be given more monetary and fiscal influence by getting exclusively the important job of buying & selling U.S. bonds to stabilize the market. This job is now done by the powerful Federal Open Market Committee, five of whose twelve members are Reserve Bank presidents elected by commercial bankers. The board...