Word: bags
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TILLERMAN (A & M). Love songs and ecology blend happily in the song bag of British Bard Cat Stevens...
...decision to open communications with China. I could do it where others could not. I believe that it will make a greater contribution to the next generation, to peace in the world, than anything else we have done. It was a difficult decision because it was a mixed bag as far as public reaction was concerned. I knew that it posed many problems with many of our friends in the world. But it had to be done and this country had to make that move. No other country could; ironically, the Soviet Union was unable...
Wallace is but one of dozens of minority-group small businessmen whom Dunphy and his team have launched. Dunphy sold his own prosperous paper-bag business to the Hammermill Co. in 1968; he now works for the Sealed Air Corp. He joined his former business school roommate, Harold Tanner, in forming a group of top-and middle-level executives who spend five to 15 hours a week helping minority businessmen turn a profit. Says Dunphy: "Jobs and education are still the main event in aiding minority groups in America. But small business is the most difficult field to open compared...
...president of Amherst College, he brought a healer's touch to the liberal arts school in more ways than one. He used a calm, fatherly approach to the academic and financial problems that confront all college presidents, and when medical needs arose, he would pick up his black bag and make house calls around town. Now, as president of the State University of New York's Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, Plimpton still makes house calls of a kind. Since his arrival in August, he has dropped in on faculty members, students and neighborhood leaders, not to prescribe...
WHEN Santa touches down on the nation's roofs this Christmas Eve, his big bag of toys will be a little lighter than usual. In a rare occurrence, Americans will acquire fewer toys this year than last. Manufacturers' shipments for the first nine months of 1971 slipped to $1.56 billion, down from $1.58 billion for the same period last year. Mattel, the General Motors of the toy industry, has seen its nine months' sales figures drop from $280 million to $217 million, and has reported a net loss of $4,003,000 for the period...