Word: thoroughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very next day Mullins' analysis inaugurated a new policy, decidedly more kind to Sinclair Weeks. On this particular occasion he achieved a thorough reversal of policy. It could have been instructions, or possibly a deeper social insight; but it happened in 30 minutes in the boss' office. Richard S. Stewart...
Perhaps the committee working on the problem will devise a completely new approach to grading. If, however, it does not plan a thorough reconstruction, and intends to make changes within the existing framework, it should record plusses and minuses so that rank group ratings will more accurately represent a man's effort, ability, and accomplishment...
...Poland, "a thorough purge is going on in all phases of Jewish life . . . Politically conscious peoples are being forced to liquidate their past, and confess to crimes they never committed. Those who are able [to do so] flee the country...
This week the General got a shove. The Hoover Commission, which has been busy digging away at inefficiency in the Government, has just come up with a plan for a thorough shake-up of the whole National Security Organization, the first plan to overhaul completely the 1947 compromise. The Commission jumps on the budget problem as indicating the defects in the present organization. It cites the incredible fact that a $30,000,000,000 defense budget was once being seriously considered for 1950; that this budget included the remodeling of precisely 102 more tanks of a certain type than...
Requirements for salesmanship are (1) a thorough knowledge of one's product, (2) a liberal arts education and (3) a good wife, Brown declared...