Word: birk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...corporate chiefs say that relations have improved lately because Carter and his Cabinet are beginning to listen to them. William Hewitt, the chairman of Deere & Co. (farm equipment), reflected on last week's Administration spokesmen: ";They said nothing new, but there is no disadvantage in that." Added Roger Birk, president of Merrill Lynch: "Such communication is a positive thing, and it does help business confidence...
...also a mania, more appealing to many persons than psychotherapy or other relatively demanding kinds of help. Explains Boston Psychiatrist Lee Birk: "Transcendental Meditation appears to be based on art rather than science, and there is something people like about that. The white-coated laboratory researcher is just not as comforting as the Indian guru who has centuries of human wisdom behind him." Even so, the sweeping claims about TM still need to be proved definitively...