Word: legwork
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ghetto areas. The main reason for this failing is that the commissioners have given their staff little guidance as to what kind of cases to concentrate on. The staff has been reacting to whatever complaints happen to come in the mail, mostly from businessmen against competitors, rather than doing legwork. The FTC has an Office of Program Review that is supposed to set priorities but, the A.B.A. report notes, its director "died almost a year ago and has not been replaced...
...shrewdly dropped the financially tricky rider of a free fifth course (part of their original scheme) and were given a political boost by Yale's highly publicized "pass-fail" plan late in the fall. More important was a lot of routine political legwork--testimony before the CEP, interviews with Dean Ford and other CEP members. By the time the proposal to allow every student to take one of his courses ungraded came to a vote in November there was no argument. The CEP approved it unanimously and after a few weeks to arrange implementation, the Faculty passed...
Proof of Delivery. Mostly, the investigators rely on legwork. While Margaret Kreig was working with the FDA, she became an observer and at times a disguised participant in lurid whodunits, and a target of death threats. In an unmarked car filled with walkie-talkie radio equipment and a spaghetti tangle of wires for tape recorders, she waited outside Macy's in Manhattan one afternoon with a chief inspector. In another car parked near by, a second inspector, posing as a black-marketeer known as "Wally from Denver," was scheduled to make an incriminating deal with a genuine crook called...
After a year's legwork Gunness and Goldsmith have signed up 13 colleges who support their plans. Gunness hopes that the number will be thirty by the end of this year, eventually including area trade schools and nursing schools...
...reporters trying to cover North Viet Nam, the most sophisticated transportation is of little use: the country is hermetically sealed off to Americans and most other Westerners. For the WORLD cover story on Ho Chi Minh, The Jungle Marxist, TIME correspondents had to use patient intelligence methods-the legwork of the mind-which consisted largely of debriefing travelers, businessmen, diplomats, refugees. One of the hard facts about the North Vietnamese enemy, of course, is how independent he is of modern transportation, tirelessly moving along the forest trails. To rescue Asia from that enemy, said TIME...