Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...university were real and targets included university decision-making in real estate, discipline, and accessibility of senior faculty. Columbia's self-perpetuating Board of Trustees exerts control over faculty and students on most university issues of consequence. Thus Columbia's enormous real estate ventures, which, according to James Ridgway, account for at least half the university's endowment funds, were not open to public or faculty scrutiny, review, or advice. Nor was there any faculty intermediary authority between the administration and the President and Trustees when the students began to protest real estate practices in Harlem. Disciplinary decisions came from...
...methods. He is basically, however, a traditionalist. He believes in the value of systematic, highly organized instruction and the lecture system. Ford once described his idea of Harvard development as a process of "doing more of some things without doing less of others." This philosophy seeks to take into account a diverse student body, and it also applies to course offerings, fields of concentration, Faculty chairs, and General Education courses...
Wall Street fairly shuddered two years ago when Mayor John Lindsay urged a 50% increase in New York's stock-transfer tax. Brokers protested that the tax was already unfair to out-of-state investors, who account for 70% of the New York Stock Exchange's $130 billion annual business. Warning that any increase would be "misguided, shortsighted and self-defeating," the Big Board dropped plans to build a new $80 million headquarters in Manhattan, threatened to move lock, stock and trading booths out of the state...
Five years later, the massive scar tissue left on British intelligence has begun to heal, and diligent reporters are prying out coherent accounts of Philby's 34 years as a Soviet agent. Even now the full truth is not known, as illustrated by the fact that these four books show discrepancies at critical points. For example, how did Philby, as the net closed around him, escape from Beirut to asylum in Russia? The authors of Conspiracy, a team of reporters from the London Sunday Times, suggest that he made it to the Syrian border in a Turkish truck; then...
...spite of a new corporate symbol and the influx of $450 million raised to modernize the creaky 117-year-old company, Western Union's growth rate has been discouraging. Telegrams, which still account for 46% of the company's revenues, were off last year; some modernization programs were slow getting started and, as a result, revenues rose a meager 5%. But Western Union does have some interesting possibilities. One is that, in spite of assets of $741 million, its total common-stock value is about $350 million-which puts it in the range that an acquisitive-minded smaller...