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...sense of social responsibility" or "an extraordinary sense of duty." Bok had already shrugged off presidential feelers from Stanford, Amherst and Dartmouth, but this was Harvard, "a quite different case" in Bok's measured words, which drew on "particular loyalties." For the man who called the day after the bust of University Hall (he had urged Pusey not to send in the police) "the saddest day in my life," the decision seemed almost preordained. As Bok told reporters as he and his wife waited for the official phone call on the morning of January 11, 1970 to confirm his selection...
...intellectual crisis and quest in 20th-century China. Liang and his work in the service of the "Third Force" in China, between Nationalist and Communit, never occupied center stage. His failure and decline into historical obscurity capture much of the story of the early 20th century in China. Bust as Alitto has sought to tell that story from the novel perspective of failure, he slipped into a trap of his own making. By the end of his treatment, the nowforgotten figure of Liang Shuming emerges from the shadows endowed with significance he cannot claim as Alitto uses Liang to represent...
...Olympics are supposed to be for sportsmen, not businessmen. But every four years companies pay dearly to reap the prestige and lucrative sales surge of an Olympic tie-in. The Carter Administration's Moscow Games boycott, though, has turned the summer's expected sales boom into a bust...
...fear among bankers, economists and even some politicians. They worry lest the Administration's policies will not bring a recession this year. In their view, only a slump can curb inflation; if it does not occur, and prices keep skyrocketing, the economy may be headed for a real bust later. "The figures show that we are still probably not in a recession," said Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen, chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, with disappointment clearly audible in his voice...
...exchange's 293-year history, the members of the 403 separate risk-taking Lloyd's syndicates have insured countless ships and just about everything else from satellites to the Loch Ness monster and Betty Grable's legs. They even underwrote for $1 million the bust of a San Francisco striptease dancer billed as "Treasure Chest West...