Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Adam B. Ulam, the center's director and professor of Government, has an office in 106, at the middle of a long corridor on the first floor of 1737 Cambridge Street. The room resembles the kind of scholar's study that would appear in a Victorian novel: papers are everywhere, ashtrays are full of the professor's pipe tobacco and cigarette butts and books lie in every manner of arrangement--books with fifteen bookmarks, books face-down on their binding, and books lying fallow--most of them with the dull dark red covers of the University libraries...
...news, quickly gathered in Yorktown. Edgar Bronfman was firmly in charge. Flying back to be at his side was his former wife of some 20 years, Ann Loeb Bronfman, who had divorced him in 1973. Also present were three of their five children: Holly, 18, Matthew, 16, and Adam, 12. The fourth, Edgar Jr., 20, joined the family temporarily, then moved into his father's Fifth Avenue apartment to follow events from there. All through Saturday, there was no word from the kidnapers...
...Yorktown, the family restlessly waited out developments in the large English Tudor house. They mostly sat and talked to one another, sometimes napping fitfully by day, sleeping little at night. Young Adam, described as especially fond of his brother, tried to entice others into Monopoly games to pass the anguished hours. A score of FBI agents arrived at the estate to advise the family and monitor events. Up to 50 reporters and photographers kept vigil at the gates. Helicopters came and went, each flight sending rumors through the ranks of the watching press...
...must quarrel with one point. John Maynard Keynes may "often" have been called the "savior of capitalism" but not by those familiar with free market economics. Keynes preached government interventionism, which is antithetical to the doctrines of Adam Smith. "In the long run we are all dead," Keynes said in dismissing the long-term consequences of his tampering with the free market. Well, Keynes is dead but we are not, and the chickens he hatched are coming home to roost...
...latest economic and political crises compounded Nigeria's more chronic problems, which include a notorious degree of corruption-known locally as "dash"-among military and government officials. As one Nigerian newspaper editor recently observed, "If original sin goes back to the Garden of Eden, then Adam must have been a Nigerian." Although Gowon is considered irreproachably honest, he was unable to control the widespread graft that helped prevent equitable distribution of the nation's oil wealth ($8 billion for 1974) to most of the 79 million Nigerians, who must still survive on an average per capita income...