Word: textbook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nevertheless, despite the heavy pressure from right and left, Bosch might have stayed in power. But his administration suffered from a momentous strategic flaw: the president's inflexibility. During his years of exile, Bosch's political sense was developed from textbook democracy and the model of United States politics. As a result, Bosch tried to rule from theory, not from pragmatic understanding of Dominican needs...
...monasteries, ability to paint and carve figures in lifelike proportion was forgotten, and faces began to take on fixed expressions of wonder, glee and terror. But "primitive" art is often closer to nature than the well-drawn, finely carved academy pieces of "high culture," and despite their lack of textbook accuracy, the Coptic artists were expressing their real concern; they were painting, carving and weaving the material of their daily lives against the Christian vision...
...eventually went on to conquer China, despite Stalin's warning that they were backward and not ready for revolution. After the war, Stalin sent Mao a Russian handbook of partisan strategy against the Nazis; Mao passed it to an aide who snorted: "If we had this as our textbook we would have been annihilated ten years...
...working knowledge after 30 hours of instruction and a good fluency (a 3,000-word vocabulary) after 120 hours. The price: $3 for group lessons, $6 for individual sessions. For Berlitz, this amounts to a profitable business that grosses some $4,000,000 a year from teaching, translation and textbook royalties through 32 branches in North and Central America. A separate Paris-based company, spun off after World War I, runs 208 Berlitz outlets overseas...
...usual, Zeckendorf hopes to pull out of his present bind by selling off properties, but that will take some doing. Webb & Knapp's recently released 1962 annual report is a textbook of corporate debt and declining assets; its long-term debt is an astonishing 83% of its assets. Webb & Knapp's finances are sometimes so complicated that its own auditors are unable to unravel them. Two months ago, outside auditors had to be called in to double-check some calculations. The result: instead of the previously reported $5,000,000 profit for 1962's second and third...