Word: attractants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nothing from Grandfather. The first move is Chinn Ho's trademark. He has made the foundation of his empire, Honolulu's $25 million Capital Investment Co., Ltd., so flexible that it can quickly and easily be tailored to attract the risk capital required for specific situations. Stretching out from Capital are ten subsidiaries with tentacles reaching out all across the Pacific; some subsidiaries have subsidiaries; one sub-subsidiary in turn controls three other corporations. Through Capital, Ho controls the whole complex. "We can arrive at very fast decisions," he says. "That's the essence of our operation...
...some hope for the commuters came at the Dudley Founding Fathers Dinner, April 19. At the dinner President Pusey declared that Harvard has "gone far enough, perhaps too far" in its efforts to attract students from other states. "I nearly leapt out of my chair," Leighton commented on Pusey's remark. "This is what Dudley has been waiting to hear." The University's effort to become a national institution began in 1933 under President Conant and resulted in the percentage of Massachusetts students per class dropping from 55.1 per cent for '29 to 21.3 per cent...
Pointing out that "Harvard has had greater success in attracting top-notch applicants from elsewhere in America than in letting its neighbors know what it is looking for and what it has to offer," the committee recommended: "A continuing effort should be made to attract qualified applicants from Boston and its suburbs, but there should be no relaxation of standards in favor of such applicants...
...system constitutes progress. But to expand is not necessarily to improve, for the construction of new roads like the Inner Belt may well add to a city's transportation problems in the long run. Cities build big roads to purge themselves of traffic jams; but the big roads attract more cars, until soon the traffic jams are as bad as ever, and the shortage of parking downtown is much worse. More cars downtown mean more use of space for parking, less for buildings, parks, and so on. The end, relentlessly being approached in some cities, is a vast highway system...
Worst of all, La Dolce Vita fails to attract the moviegoer as much as it repulses him, fails to inspire his sympathies as well as his disgust. Everyman is passive throughout the picture, largely unconscious of the awful fate that is overtaking him. He therefore puts up no moral struggle against his fate, and without struggle there is no drama. Many spectators will be inclined to agree with the character who remarks in the concluding scene: "Mamma mia, what a disgusting mess...