Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effort to encourage the unprecedented wave of corporate mergers now sweeping the country, Harold Wilson's Labor government has acted on the belief that Britain can best compete in world markets with bigger, more efficient companies. Wilson's detractors are not so sure. And they have been particularly suspicious of the Industrial Reorganization Corporation, a quasi-governmental group that has produced more than its share of bickering in its role as Britain's official corporate marriage broker...
...required courses and 6 limited electives. Students were understandably eager to have this "12-12" plan approved by the Faculty. Feeling that it had to maintain "minimum uniform standards" in the department, the Faculty passed a slightly more restrictive 14-required, 10-elective plan, touching off the wave of student protest...
...battalions. They are thus unable to hit at their besiegers, or even put out sufficient reconnaissance patrols to determine the size and deployment of the Communist armies arrayed around them. Nor can the U.S. and the South Vietnamese be sure how many enemy forces, the remnants of the original wave of attackers, remain hidden inside the rings hastily thrown around the cities and towns. In Saigon, the problem is particularly acute, since the size and effectiveness of this fifth column might well determine the outcome of any major Communist thrust...
...Swarowsky, conducting is "the art of the little movement," and the wrist-not the arm-is the key. Since most young conductors tend to weave and wave like hysterical herons, he takes drastic steps to restrict them to wrist movements. In practice sessions with the Academy's student orchestra, he makes them stand still and beat time only with the right hand, keeping the arm tied to a chair or held out stiffly in front of them. He teaches that the conductor is "a necessary evil" who can be crucial to the preparation and rehearsal of a score...
...many planners feel that shopping centers are approaching what Los Angeles Architect Victor Gruen, a pioneer in the field, calls "a new wave of innovation." With realty taxes, land and construction costs constantly escalating, says Vice President Andrew L. Murphy of Allied Stores, "the future of the shopping center is vertical." He foresees the demolition of many of today's thriving centers and their replacement by towering retail-office-apartment complexes. Some centers are already growing into such minicities. Developer Raymond D. Nasher has begun work on a "platform city" in Atlanta, and he expects to expand his handsome...