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Hague Conferences
Hague Conferences term for the International Peace Conference of 1899 (First Hague Conference) and the Second International Peace Conference of 1907 (Second Hague Conference). Both were called by Russia and met at The Hague, the Netherlands. Neither succeeded in the main announced purpose of effect...
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flextime
flextime system of assigning hours for work that permits employees to choose, within specified limits, the hours that they will be at their place of employment. In many companies, there is a "core time" when all employees must be present each workday. By allowing employees to stagger hours or b...
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Pinchas Zukerman
Pinchas Zukerman 1948-, Israeli violinist and conductor, b. Tel Aviv. A violin protégé of Isaac Stern , he came to the United States in 1962 and made his New York City debut the following year. Zukerman is particularly noted as a chamber music performer. He was musical director of ...
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Olympic games
Olympic games premier athletic meeting of ancient Greece, and, in modern times, series of international sports contests.
The Olympics of Ancient Greece
Although records cannot verify games earlier than 776 BC, the contests in Homer's Iliad indicate a much earlier competitive tradition. ...
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Harold Wilson
Harold Wilson (James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx), 1916-95, British statesman. A graduate of Oxford, he became an economics lecturer there (1937) and a fellow of University College (1938). Wilson entered Parliament (1945) as a Labour member, and as president of the Board of Trade (1947-...
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computer-aided manufacturing
computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), a form of automation where computers communicate work instructions directly to the manufacturing machinery. The technology evolved from the numerically controlled machines of the 1950s, which were directed by a set of coded instructions contained in a punched p...
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Oscar Wilder Underwood
Oscar Wilder Underwood 1862-1929, American political leader, U.S. Senator from Alabama (1915-27), b. Louisville, Ky. A lawyer in Birmingham, Ala., he became important in Democratic party politics. In the U.S. House of Representatives (1895-96, 1897-1915) he introduced the Underwood Tariff Act of 19...
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George Washington Goethals
George Washington Goethals , 1858-1928, U.S. army engineer, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., grad. West Point, 1880. After serving on various inland water projects, he was appointed chief engineer of the Panama Canal when John F. Stevens resigned (1907). Goethals found the difficulty of the work increased by the ...
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Greenpeace
Greenpeace international organization that promotes environmental awareness and addresses environmental abuse through direct, nonviolent confrontations with governments and companies. Founded in 1971 to oppose U.S. nuclear testing in Alaska, the organization has fought to protect endangered species...
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Roger Eugene Maris
Roger Eugene Maris , 1934-85, American baseball player, b. Hibbing, Minn. He played (1957-59) for Cleveland and the Kansas City Athletics before joining (1960) the New York Yankees. In 1961, Maris hit 61 home runs, breaking Babe Ruth 's record of 60 in one season. Ford C. Frick, commissioner of bas...
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