Word: firmly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...that the president of the firm of Jesus, Inc., Norman Vincent Peale, has identified himself with a group of other bigots questioning the right of a Catholic to be President...
Featherbedding. In the early 1950s a reform group was elected, ordered a survey of the schools' business practices. A topflight management firm found colossal waste, no proper accounting, and a great deal of featherbedding in the buildings department. The experts estimated that nearly one-fourth of the nonteaching budget was wasted, but their report was highly technical and the voters missed the point; the old group successfully pinned the label of penny pinchers on the reformers. Anti-reformers swept the 1955 elections. A grand jury has since called the next two years "as corrupt as any in the history...
When De Gaulle's government took over in France and cast about for ways to restore French economic grandeur, one of its major moves was to model its depreciation allowances after the Germans. For new equipment with a life of three years, a French firm is allowed 50% first-year tax write-off, and for equipment to be depreciated over ten years or longer, it can write off no less than 25%. The idea, French experts happily note, almost compels industry to re-equip and modernize itself rapidly. Sweden for a time allowed 100% first-year write-offs...
...Businessman's Architect" by giving businessmen what they want and need in buildings, paying close attention to the balance books as well as the plumb lines. So successful is the formula that his Welton Becket & Associates is the world's largest singly owned architectural and engineering firm...
Radcliffe College needs additional dormitory facilities for approximately 300 students to house properly the 1,200 girls now in residence, according to a study just completed by the firm of Campbell and Aldrich, architects and planners...