Word: setups
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...intention of spending any of the extra money. But then the pressures began inside his own Administration. Defense Secretary Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Nathan Twining* returned from the aborted summit meeting in Paris to suggest that the U.S. ought to re-examine its defense setup and increase its "readiness." Just before the Republican Convention, Richard Nixon got together with Nelson Rockefeller in the meeting that produced the "Treaty of Fifth Avenue" (TIME cover, Aug. 1), with its call for "new efforts" in national defense...
...airline officials feel that Quesada's firm hand has helped make U.S. aviation smoother and better-run. Says Eastern Air Lines President Malcolm MacIntyre: "A.L.P.A. used to be one of the loudest complainers about not being able to get decisions under the old setup. Now it wants FAA decisions to be subject to CAB review. That's a sure way to get no decisions...
Shoes & College. Launched last fall, the new setup (budget: $1,400,000) is run by able, crew-cut Superintendent Morvin A. Wirtz, 40, a therapy expert with a doctorate in special education. His sprawling domain covers 496 square miles. It has 25 buses that cover 2,500 miles a day, 156 special teachers, and six small buildings. (A recent tax boost will raise three big buildings.) Wirtz is also responsible for speech training (6,000 students) in regular schools, but the handicapped are his chief concern. Says he: "We have the potential for developing the best special-education program...
...many as 1,000 students from across the nation will eventually descend on Science Island each summer. Founder Lukens is even dreaming of a similar setup on the West Coast. Last week's most eager applicant: Jeffrey Lukens...
Such a marketing setup is routine for sugar. Nearly all of the world's countries have some form of controlled buying or subsidy system that keeps prices for sugar higher than the world price. In the U.S. the price, in effect, is controlled by the Secretary of Agriculture, who can increase or cut it by changing the quota (9.4 million tons in 1960). U.S. refiners pay more than 5? per Ib. for sugar, about 2? above the world price, pass the extra cost on to consumers...