Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Buying. Later in the week, the President named a 21-man Advisory Committee on Labor-Management Policy, including Secretary of Labor Goldberg. Secretary of Commerce Hodges and equal representation from management, labor and the public.* - His general plan is to use all the persuasion and pressure at his command to moderate big labor's wage demands and big business' price rises. At the same time, the Administration will try to increase the incomes of low-pay and largely nonunionized groups by such means as boosting the minimum wage for the unskilled and service workers and by propping farmers...
Impressive reasons argue for staying. East German doctors can actually earn more than most of their West German colleagues and can usually command a house and car. And West Germany is officially opposed to the exodus, partly because West Germany has a surplus of doctors, partly because the government believes that if the spark of liberty is to be kept alive in East Germany, some intellectual leaders must remain. Minister for All-German Affairs Ernst Lemmer says carefully: "We wish these represent atives of the German intelligentsia would stick it out and lend their fellow citizens a moral and spiritual...
Davison expressed his character, ideals and aims probably best in his books on the state of American music. One work, Choral Conducting, is full of the shrewd, tactful stratagems he used to command the complete loyalty of his singers. Music Education in America, written in 1926, assaulted many of the pet notions of the public and the musical professions: he ridiculed sight-reading and compulsory piano lessons for young children and derided the idea that music was best taught by drill, when drill presented discipline and not understanding...
Captain Bob Bowditch took command of the faltering Crimson attack, and along with Deering and Borchard, maneuvered a series of brilliant full court dashes...
...division under a newly formed News Executive Committee headed by Attorney Richard S. Salant, 46, who has spent much of his nine years with CBS as the network's public-and Government-relations representative in Washington. Just two days before Mickelson walked out, his second in command, News Vice President John F. Day, 47, quit because the reorganization had made his position "untenable." "We have lost rating wars before. What's going on now is incredible," he said. Day darkly predicted more defections to come...