Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feel deeply grateful to you for your tribute to John Maynard Keynes [Dec. 31]. It is so understandingly appreciative and so effective. In the crude early days of our economic development, Marx shrewdly appraised our system's weakness -workers got only a subsistence wage, were thus unable to buy back the product of their labor. Marx advocated revolution as the remedy. It was Keynes who saw the way out. As a result of his influence, wealth circulates with great freedom in our whole society, as you so well state. It is this triumphant answer to Marx that makes...
...pool and Tuskegee's all-white First Methodist Church. Last week, just before his death, he spent hours in the downtown Macon County Courthouse helping some 40 Negro would-be voters to register. That night, when he went to nearby Wilson's Standard Oil service station to buy gas and use the men's room, he got into an argument with Attendant Marvin Segrest, 67, with whom he had quarreled several times previously. Segrest went to a desk drawer, pulled out a gun, and fired twice. Younge fell dead with a .38 slug near his left...
Under the proposal, Exodus would subcontract with Harvard for the duration of the study (at least a year) and receive money to bus 1,000 students, pay staff salaries, hire consultants, and buy office equipment. The study would try to measure the effect that busing has had on the performance and attitudes of Exodus children and on the feelings of their parents...
...that it is, in its own way, monumental. It goes beyond (or below) mediocrity to achieve a really first-rate bad movie status; in fact it probably will become the classic example to future generations. There is, one supposes, some value in this. But at any rate don't buy the glossy expensive Is Paris Burning souvenir booklet sold during intermission. You couldn't forget this film if you tried--and you will...
...Malaya, on which Singapore depends for, among other things, its water supply and its raw materials. Singapore's leaders are trying to keep their nation's economy afloat by a massive switch from trade to manufacturing, are urging industrial countries to set up plants in Singapore and buy its products. If the switch fails, says Defense Minister Goh Keng Swee, "it's a certain deduction that the Communists will eventually win power by free elections"-a statement that is clearly made to elicit help and sympathy from...