Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kress Library contains 30,000 "treasured volumes, which represent the foundations of economic philosophy and business theory," Rodgers says. "Imagine carefully opening the 1776 first edition of Adam Smith's classic The Wealth of Nations or turning the fresh pages of David Hume's Political Discourses printed 230 years ago," the curator noted...
Again, to generalize is unfair, and to foster intergenerational competition is silly. The point is that now, as before, students are pretty good on their social instincts, but not so successful in social change. Handwringing about "selling out" does not help explain this. Adam Smith does...
...Charles P. Alexander. Reported by Michael Moritz/San Francisco and Adam Zagorin/New York
...Welsh castle. It has a sauna and Jacuzzi in the master bedroom and an elaborate security system. Hwang still works a six-day week. Says he: "My executives call me a slave driver. But I tell them to look at Osborne, and they don't say anything." Adam Osborne headed a fast-growing personal-computer firm that announced plans to go public last winter but ended up filing for bankruptcy in September...
...Financial Journalist George J.W. Goodman, who writes under the nom de plume Adam Smith, observed in The Money Game, a 1968 analysis of the stock market: "Really big money is not made in the stock market by outside investors. I am talking about multiples of millions rather than just, say, one lousy million. Who makes the really big money? The inside stockholders of a company do, when the market capitalizes the earnings of that company ... I am not making any value judgments. This is the way things...