Word: size
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grateful but not completely satisfied by the size of his victory, Ben-Gurion hopes to coalesce with two small center parties so that he can have an absolute majority to put through an electoral reform his heart is set upon. He would like to abolish proportional representation in favor of a U.S.-type system in which deputies would be elected from individual constituencies. The result, Ben-Gurion believes, would be to cut down the number of parties, and permit a more stable system of governing what he complains is a "nation of Prime Ministers...
Madison Avenue's top-drawer advertising agencies have followed the trend; five years ago, agencies spawned 10% of all network shows, now also save on overhead by shopping for their clients among the packagers. The ubiquitous package firms range in size from giants, e.g., Revue Productions Inc., dog-wagging tail of the Music Corp. of America, which grossed $38 million on its filmed series (M Squad, Wagon Train) last year, down to one-shot independents, e.g., Jack (Lassie) Wrather. The range is qualitative as well: Independent Robert Saudek has won Emmys and Peabody Awards for Omnibus, while Warner Bros...
Reischauer called Harvard "way out ahead" in the undergraduate program, since students accept a Far Eastern course as "a natural part of their studies." Political science, art, literature, and history courses have steadily increased in size during the years since World...
Along with duties as Chairmen's wife in the Fine Arts Department, Mrs. Deknatel and her husband have a responsibility towards Fogg Museum. Openings and special exhibits usually do not escape them. However, departmental duties vary, Mrs. Deknatel pointed out, with the size of the department. "The Fine Arts Department, being small, generally has a very small turn over and consequently we are not as involved in settling new comers as the larger departments...
...call for government intervention seems to be a necessary corollary of the size of economic units with which this country operates. To lodge the final power for settling disputes with the government is to admit that the countervailing forces have enough reserve strength so that the pressures of collective bargaining may yield results only after a disastrously long strike. To give the public a voice in proceedings that ultimately affect it, a new government mechanism, not to replace collective bargaining but to smooth its processes, is sorely needed...