Word: gentlemens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than 21 days. Opponents of the move complained that it meant a return to the bad old days when the Speaker was a near autocrat, but the speakership is still a long way from Uncle Joe Cannon and Tom Reed, who liked to announce his arbitrary decisions by declaring: "Gentlemen, we have decided to perpetrate the following outrage...
...many jobs are given to school friends or relations." The average age of 100 top British executives was recently given as 61-older than either bishops or members of the Cabinet. Many companies are still family-owned and fusty, and the existence of an "Old Boy" network of gentlemen amateurs discourages the formation of an industrial meritocracy. Many executives lack professional business training-and there are few places where they could train anyway: there are only about 600 management students in the entire country...
...giant is now stirring," says Sir Leon Bagrit, "and at last a determined effort to modernize is about to begin." It had better begin soon. In the new world war of hard international trade, the panzers of the more progressive trading nations are often merciless. With too many gentlemen amateurs still in command, the British economy is still badly outgunned...
...gentlemen, to be serious with you, I detected a more sinister note in your review. I think in a way that it helps to explain Sen. Goldwater's defeat last November. I do not wish it thought that I, like Sen. Goldwater, think the press was not biased during the last campaign. It was biased, and I do not think any of you will seriously question me on that score...
Local sporting gentlemen, however, know all about this. They know about Mitchell and Marks, and they know about Harvard's injuries. And still, you can't bet on Harvard without giving away 10 to 14 points