Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreign policy are not easy. Last week, after eight years of procrastination, the U.S. and Britain came to a decision on the Trieste issue (see INTERNATIONAL). It may be hard, in the face of Tito's bluster, to make the Trieste verdict stick. But on this and a thousand other points, the danger is too great for continued vacillation. With no net below, the trapeze requires caution, but it also requires an alert eye and a quick, unfaltering hand...
...thousand Americans in Paris were using-with wry distaste-a new verb last week. The word is riffed. It means to be fired for economy, and it comes from the bureaucratic phrase Reduction In Force, the new Dulles-Stassen program to cut down expenses in the agencies that hand out U.S. aid overseas. Last June Congress directed Foreign Operations Director Harold Stassen to 1) fire 10% of the old Mutual Security Agency staff; 2) slash by a third the number of jobholders getting $12,000 a year or more...
...Colgate in suitable business position. "Three-fourths of my boys couldn't take, say Oxford, "but then, Oxford couldn't train men for the lives they lead. And its funny: Oxford men have troubling breaking into industry, but I can generally place my boys starting between three and four thousand...
...thousand cogs in the Harvard machine, that highly efficient educational mill located in the industrial city of Cambridge, Mass.," Charles Edison begins in his feature on Harvard. Edison, a sophomore at Colgate, published his views in The Colgate Maroon on Wednesday. (Full text of Edison's article will be found on page 2 of today's CRIMSON...
...thousand cogs in the Harvard machine, that highly efficient educational mill located in the industrial city of Cambridge, Mass...