Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...writer, serious enough to find all lesser concerns humorous. In a civilization in which artists have taken over from religious leaders the function of conscience to the world, one of the prophets. He belongs with a number of great modern thinkers such as Joyce, Nietzsche, Camus, and Malraux, who aim at the very center of human experience: his subject is the value of life. His attack is similar to that levelled by these, and numerical men. It is an outcry against the world with its mad race for material and improvement; with its growing callousness among men caught...
...most elegant group") that claims 1,800,000 readers, mostly under the dryer, the club is owned by Madame's genial Editor Heinz Weigt, 51, a barber's son who turned from shaves and facials to champagne and ego massage. The club's chief aim is to make the new tycoons feel socially accepted-if only by other new tycoons. Nevertheless, for dues of $7.50, as a West German magazine delicately pointed out, "one does not have to be rich to belong. It is enough if one sufficiently admires and respects wealth...
...name of Control Data. In four years, Control Data has risen from the brink of financial ruin to such strength that on occasion it can even push the big boys around. The formula, explains professorial William C. Norris, Control Data's 50-year-old president, is disarmingly simple: "Aim for a piece of the market and then do a better job than anyone else...
...Control Data's aim has been so true that its sales have soared from $625,-756 in fiscal 1958 to $20 million last year. Earnings hit $842,000 in 1960 and Control Data stock, originally issued at $1 a share, is now traded at about $42 after a three-for-one split...
...offer; he moves too thoughtfully and slowly for that. But he took it. In May 1928 he wrote to a friend: "This antipodal revolution of my studies has been of large value in helping me to obtain that Pisgah* sight of things and people that perhaps is the ultimate aim of my apparently inconsistent, faltering and obscure action." In 1930, at the age of 33, Enders got a Ph.D. in microbiology with a thesis on anaphylaxis (severe allergic reaction...