Word: asset
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...source of the dissatisfaction is most decidedly not the college's academic quality. Mount Holyoke is unquestionably one of the finest and most rigorous women's colleges in the country. Probably its grates academic asset is the genuinely close contact that students have with faculty members; all of Mount Holyoke's classes are small by Harvard standards. Furthermore, the College offers numerous seminars and a liberal independent study program in which even freshmen may regularly participate...
...every dollar as long as he can. Some treasurers-such as those at Alcoa and Deere & Co.-have even set up their own sales financing subsidiaries to spur sales of their firm's products, and incidentally give them another profitable way to use its cash. "Every piece of asset-whatever it is-must be at work," says Union Oil Treasurer L. B. Houghton...
...raft of College and graduate school alumni in the government to draw on for assistance," McCloskey said. "If the program is kept small it can be a really excellent one and a great asset to the University...
...Broadway's most precious asset is its receptiveness to new ideas, and the most provocative contemporary idea in the modern theater has been the bizarre, chaotic, deeply existential attempt to find the meaning of man in a world of no-meaning threatened with a nuclear apocalypse-the theater of the absurd...
...biggest lines are losing money flying half-empty jets across the country. The industry as a whole manages to eke out only a paltry 2% or so on invested capital. While the causes are many and complicated, most of the losses could be wiped out by one asset: more passengers. Last week, on several fronts, the airlines were busy revolutionizing the old concept of air travel with a new pattern of fares and service designed to take some of the cost, complexity and confusion out of air travel, hoping thereby to tap the market of millions of non-flyers...