Word: systemization
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...office, which began in 1946, has been one of almost unprecedented University growth. It is generally felt that in this period he did much to order and centralize the activities which might otherwise have expanded haphazardly. He was also an important figure in the revamping of the University pension system, a process which has been going on since...
Laubach has tackled 260 languages and dialects in 97 countries, founded a worldwide literacy drive whose current momentum comes from the first TV use of his system four years ago by WKNO-TV in Memphis. Results were so impressive (2,000 illiterates learned to read and write in four months) that the lessons have been adapted with UNESCO aid for TV use in India, Africa and the Middle East. ¶for Courage. Dynamo behind this week's U.S. drive is bustling Mayes Behrman, 67, literacy director of the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, N.C., which teaches simple...
...least has a philosophy. To people like him we can point out that morality does have a purpose, and we can lead them back to the self-consistent system of orthodox, reformative Christendom.'' The Schaeffers count their conversions in low numbers-last summer there were 17, and last week there were two more...
Allyn built new factories at Augsburg and Berlin, put up others in Scotland, Sweden, France, Brazil, Japan. Then came the new products: registers and calculators of every description. N.C.R. developed an automated electronic bookkeeping system for banks, added sales of $70 million in the first two years the system was on the market...
...Hong Kong, the newly formed Hong Kong Garment Manufacturers (for the U.S.A.) Assoc., fearful of U.S. tariffs against their ever increasing garment exports, set up a voluntary three-year quota system for shipments of cotton goods to the U.S. (TIME, Dec. 14). With the blessing of the colony's government, the new restrictions limit 1960 exports to the U.S. to the 1959 figures plus a 15% increase; in each of the next two years, there would be an additional 10% increase...