Word: credited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much exposure to business, a young Negro is often inadequately trained in the fundamentals that whites take for granted, including bookkeeping. When he ventures into enterprise, he runs into a financial community that often rejects him for reasons that strike him as strange: a shortage of collateral, a dim credit history, a lack of precise records...
...GOVERNMENT HELP. Next to business training, what Negro entrepreneurs need most is credit. The easiest source for it is the Small Business Administration. Since 1965, the S.B.A. has made or guaranteed more than 8,000 soft loans, totaling $82 million, to would-be businessmen-about a third of them Negroes-with incomes below the poverty line. Unfortunately, the effort to make instant entrepreneurs of the poor proved disastrous. Default rates soared, and the S.B.A. concedes that a majority of the firms are in trouble...
...disconnected episodes, the narrator of Steps reveals a condition of obsession that is all the more horrifying because of its controlled willfulness and absence of passion and spontaneity. He lures a young girl away from her village with a deck of credit cards. He observes sodomy between a woman and a "large animal" and wonders whether her cries are just part of the act. He hovers over the body of a woman wasting away with TB. He humiliates a girl by talking on the telephone while making love to her. In another episode, he is again...
...Requests the Harvard Faculty to withdraw credit from the courses offered by the three branches of ROTC at Harvard...
...them in the same manner as other Harvard organizations must. ROTC could accomplish this by applying to one or another regular Harvard departments in the same way that SDS did with Soc Rel 148 and HEP did with Soc Rel 136. In this way, ROTC could receive course credit and corporate appointments if its courses warranted such recognition. Presumably, the said departments would wish to consider both the political and academic implications of the ROTC courses, in the same manner as the HUC has done...