Word: develop
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...social security [extended to cover an additional 7,500,000], more for highways, hospitals, health, housing. When before did any government ever take less from the people in taxes and give them more in return?" With economic strength at home and political firmness abroad, said Judd, the U.S. has developed a sound strategy for holding its own in the cold war. "But we cannot hope to win in the end just by holding. We must develop a strategy for victory worthy of this most terrible testing in our nation's life." To Republican Judd, the choice in November...
...bringing together representatives of these fields, the organizers of the conference hope to develop the "best patterns" for cooperation in making American aid "genuinely fruitful." And, at a deeper level, the members of the conference will explore American policy objectives in education and training programs...
Each of these companies has one prime asset: inventive brains. The ability to develop new ideas and products is more prized today than such old measuring rods as a stock's book value. To Sherman Fairchild, the reasons for buying growth make good sense. When he decided to buy stock in Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co., which was a growth stock ten years ago and still is, he called up the Wall Street office that he set up just for investment purposes. "They asked me if I didn't want to see the balance sheets of the company," says...
...Nerve. "I'd still like to invent the products," says Fairchild, "but the business has become too big for that." Fairchild believes that it is not enough simply to develop a product that is slightly better than a competitor's. He had no interest in bringing out a movie camera that was only an improvement on cameras on the market. But when his re searchers came to him with the idea of a home movie sound camera, he gave en thusiastic approval. "Fellows from the camera company came to see me and said they could produce...
...reason that small businesses do not land contracts more often, argues Rod, is that they do not find out what the military services want and then develop the products. Instead, they go to the Small Business Administration and plead their smallness. Rod set out aggressively to cultivate younger officers in the Pentagon, to find out service needs, and in 1956, the Air Force asked Acoustica if it had any ideas for the Atlas. Rod thought that the sensor would be just the thing. To get on the master bidders' list of defense contractors for other company products, he inundated...