Word: businessese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Communist rioters swirled through the streets of Hong Kong in 1967, the business community trembled on the edge of chaos. The local stock market dropped to a modern low; bank deposits plunged; tourism dried up. Nearly 1,000 businessmen made inquiries about shifting to Taiwan or Singapore. But peace...
Red China can take over the "New Territories," an essentially agricultural area that makes up four-fifths of the 400-sq.-mi. colony, when a 99-year lease expires in 1997. That will reduce the colony to Kowloon and Hong Kong Island, the two centers of business and tourism that...
In Houston, I stayed at the home of a friend. In New Orleans, I stayed in rooms donated to FOCUS by the management of the best downtown hotels. This typified many of the contrasts of the summer: at the beginning I slept in old dormitories and in the car, towards...
Ridgeway examines every phase of the university's incestuous involvement with industry and government. He discusses the inevitable interlocks between university corporations and large industrial corporations. As university trustees are generally businessmen, predictably enough, they run their institutions like businesses. "Princeton controls . . . the two main hotels, the movie theatre and...
The discriminatory employment practices of white businesses and limited opportunity in black enterprises resulted in a peculiar pattern of occupational preferences stressing anything but business -- medicine, law, teaching, and the ministry. Williams emphasized the desparate need in the ghetto for "the success image provided for the kids in school" by...