Word: types
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...admen to keep up. The weary admen began agreeing with Revson's bad ideas as well as his good ones in order to crawl home to the wife and kiddies. His brand of rugged individualism overpowered those accustomed to the grey-flanneled politeness of modern, managerial-type clients...
...danger is that the effort will be sabotaged by the bureaucrats, those who have made a career of emergency-type, government-to-government foreign aid. Not only does the new program pose a sharp threat to the perpetuation of much of foreign aid in its present form; it calls for a completely new approach. Instead of handing over foreign-aid funds in lump sums to foreign governments to pass out as they wish, it now also becomes necessary to find worthy loan possibilities among private businessmen unable to get credit in their own countries or from U.S. banks...
...wealth of Tata Sons was systematically given away to charitable trusts. When leftists say capitalism is passe, Tata replies: so is socialism. "Considering the remarkable progress made in capitalistic countries, particularly since the war, such a view can only refer to the 19th and early 20th century type of capitalism, which is, indeed, just as out of date as the 19th and early 20th century type of socialism...
...wrote and graded the examination I can assure you that setting up what you call a "loaded" examination for thinning out the field never entered our minds. We met through the spring to write what we hoped would be a mature kind of examination, one which eliminated course-type questions and gave more play to a student's intellectual independence and imagination--the qualities, we felt, of good honors candidates. Nothing like a "tutor shortage" existed then or now. The twelve losses of last spring were more than replaced by the eighteen new students taken in last week and tutors...
...advocates as much student autonomy as possible. He takes a similar "hands off" attitude toward his other work, and decries administrators who "use people as mere objects to be squeezed into blueprints." Accordingly, Buttrick's plans for the future of Memorial Church hinge on the establishment of an advisory-type committee, possibly this fall, to aid him in making decisions...