Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...similar misapprehension about the nature of a character seems to underlie Natalie Bider's Diana, the chaste teenager with whom Bertram thinks he is sleeping (while in fact Helen has substituted herself.) Diana's shift from a scatterbrained ingenue to a wordly wise young woman seems less the product of growth than of failure to choose one consistent interpretation of the role...
Later in the week, having accomplished his dual aim of venting labor's frustrations and warning Congress that it would be wise to pacify them in an election year, Meany insisted that he had neither caused nor sought a split with the Johnson Administration. It was, said he, "just a family quarrel...
...Stake in Stock. Like any wise intruder, Sears staffs its stores with natives: 99.3% of its employees are Latin Americans, including almost all store managers. The company offers a share in stock ownership as well as jobs. In Venezuela, for example, employees through profit sharing have accumulated a 17% stake in the local subsidiary. Because Latin American countries have prohibitive import barriers. Sears buys 80% of its merchandise from 9,000 native manufacturers, who produce such goods as refrigerators, washing machines and blue jeans. Sears's local purchasing program amounts to a private Alliance for Progress that has made...
Freshmen are entitled to a comprehensive comparison of the 34 possible fields of concentration. Before they can make a wise and informed choice of fields, they need to know something not only about the general requirements and amount of work, but also about the method of instruction, the course offered, and the faculty members teaching them...
...their own dollars on up to eight years of research just to stay in the race to build fewer, but costlier weapons. "We've become more sophisticated, more efficient and more competitive," says Courtlandt Gross. "We've had to -to survive. Our competitors are very alert, very wise, very hard-working." Among Lockheed's top competitors: - Boeing last year surged to the top of the 1,250 U.S. aerospace companies in sales (an estimated $2.1 billion) and profits (an estimated $77 million), thanks to record orders for its efficient commercial jets. It is an anomaly...