Word: although
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Although the Masters this week approved Dean Monro's tentative plan for non-Honors tutorial, it is the departmental chairman, rather than the masters, who will make or break the proposed program. The Departments are already short of manpower, and it will be difficult to find the additional teaching hours required for a non-Honors program...
...regards the contest for the G.O.P. presidential nomination as a campaign of the "pros against the people." In other words, he must beguile the Republican-in-the-street-and the independent voter -in order to win over the professional Republicans, now massively lined up behind Vice President Richard Nixon. Although Rockefeller is still officially undecided whether to run, the word in Washington is that he is already too deeply committed to his new staffers and political supporters to back away from a fight...
...Terrible Cracking." At 6 one evening last week, André Ferraud, the dam watchman, decided to open the safety sluices a little, although shortly before, a group of engineers had vetoed such a precaution for fear the overflow might damage the foundations of a new superhighway under construction from Fréjus to Cannes...
...Although NBC announced the appointment of a "vice president in charge of standards and practices,'' it was still CBS that talked most loudly and earnestly about reforms. Frank Stanton explicitly forbade his flock to accept payola.* CBS top brass also issued a decree to its staff that seemed to guillotine giveaway shows. The ruling forbids mention of brand names of products other than the sponsor's, also prohibits any other form of plug. NBC continued the practice of getting prizes in exchange for plugs, but announced that the schlock operation would henceforth be supervised by the network...
...rising volume and constricting profit margins, Philips is the envy of its competitors. Although 1959 sales are 15% over 1958, the profit margin actually is widening (e.g., 7.6% so far in 1959 v. 6.8% last year). Even last year, Philips' return on sales was higher than General Electric's, which was 6.1%. Looking ahead, the stockholders, whose investment has appreciated six times in ten years, firmly believe, with President Otten, that "growth is in our blood...