Word: questions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this was highly instructive for a good many stockholders but a strange commentary on the theory that a company's management should consult the will of its owners. The owners managed to ask a few simple questions (what are working conditions in the firm's mills?), a few naïve questions (what can you do to change the taste of bread?), a few indiscreet questions (what do Wheaties' baseball broadcasts cost?), but seldom a question that made real business sense about the dollars-&-cents policies of the company. The management provided some discussion of generalities, including...
...rumors that he is developing a "new religion," he says: "There is no question of concocting a new religion. Certain people have been preoccupied with similar psychological experiments and with speculations concerning them for the past three thousand years...
...years, 400-odd researchers have worried the question: Who was the man called Christopher Columbus? Was he a nobody from Genoa? A royal bastard from Portugal? An imaginative pirate from Catalonia? Annoyed with the name Christopher Columbus, he called himself Cristóbal Colón ("Bringer of Christ-Repopulator"). What was his real name? He claimed he went to sea at ten. Others snorted that he was only a high-pressure promoter. Why was he so evasive about his past...
...There is no question in my mind that the contract between the union and the University explicit provides for this," Dean Donham said. He referred to the clause of the contract signed last March which excepts "students in the University who are or may be employed therein as a means on enabling them to pay part of their expenses while studying at the University...
...result of negotiations with Stefani, the Business School has postponed the question of substituting students for employees until June. According to the School's original plan 10 students were to have replaced an equal number of waitresses on February 4, when the other economies take effect...