Word: bankrupts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bankrupt. Heyns undertook the Berkeley job at no financial loss: his $35,000 salary is about what he earned at Michigan. "Let's get one thing straight," he told reporters. "I don't regard the University of California as some kind of bankrupt organization that needs some knight in shining armor from the East to come in as a kind of domestic peace corps. I think Berkeley is a little chagrined and would like to settle down and get back to work...
...option of paying higher fines or going to jail for longer terms. Among those refusing probation was Free Speech Movement Leader Mario Savio, who haughtily told the court that he could not observe the ban because "with American politics presently in the hands of the morally and intellectually bankrupt, rebellion is a positive duty." Crittenden promptly gave Savio 120 days in jail...
...Internal Revenue Service. At first L. & M. will simplify the tax forms, rewrite the IRS's standard letters and redesign its office signs-but after that, almost anything can happen. Turned free, L. & M. might design a new shade of ink for tax bills (Affluence Green? Bankrupt Red?), or tell the IRS to change its name to something like Friendly Funding...
...effective system of hedges in playing the market that when the 1929 crash came a few months later he emerged with a kitty of $35,000 while more seasoned men went under. Simon was solvent in a promising buyer's market, and for $7,000 he bought a small, bankrupt Fullerton orange-juice plant. He renamed it Val Vita Products Inc., switched from bottles to cheaper cans, cut costs, undersold competitors and eventually switched the plant from orange juice to tomatoes. At that time, he was 25. In the next ten years, he raised Val Vita's sales from...
...events, features in the yearbook analyze or argue: "House Drama: A Play wright's Remedy," "Why Virtuosos Survice at Harvard, Or Do They?" "Harvard's New Radicals." One may of course find these sloppily written or insufficiently argued. No longer, however, can they be summarily dismissed as superficial and bankrupt...