Word: dollar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...although a Pittston lawyer told Ben Franklin of The New York Times that "in the long term, the responsibility rests with Pittston." But the people of Buffalo Creek, the survivors, knew where to affix the blame--it was God all right, they said: the Almighty Dollar...
...LIQUID hydrogen explosion three alaram fire in the experimental chamber of the Cambridge Electron Accelerator yesterday injured eight Harvard and MIT scientists and research technicians, three of them critically. The multi-million dollar explosion ripped apart the entire roof of the circular experiment section of the CEA complex, severely damaged a $1,000,000 hydrogen bubble chamber, and destroyed an elevator shaft in the adjoining administrative section of the structure...
Many businessmen feel Sporkin is overreaching his authority. Milton Freeman, who heads an American Bar Association subcommittee on SEC enforcement activities, insists that bribes, payoffs and political contributions are not "material" to stockholder interests -as long as dollar amounts remain relatively minor compared with company income. Says he: "If payoffs are being made overseas, and it's not hurting the company, it's no business of the SEC." Sporkin's reply: "What can be more important to stockholders than knowing how companies account-or don't account-for their money...
...stuff of a corporate soap opera, created by Norman Lear (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman) in collaboration with Sophocles (Oedipus Rex). A crusty entrepreneur single-mindedly builds his obscure shoe company into a billion-dollar conglomerate. He turns it over to his son. The young executive discovers that without drastic reorganization the whole empire could topple. His father fiercely disagrees. Finally, the company's board gives the younger man the power to dismantle much of the corporate structure his father had put together. While the old man watches bitterly from the sidelines, the young executive sells marginal stores and unprofitable...
...little more than half of a B-l bomber or a few miles of interstate highway. Dean Sayre, who often uses his carved Gothic stone pulpit to promote social justice, makes no apologies for the expense. "You're not competing with the poor for a dollar," he has said. "You're building something in order to use it. The instrument and the using of the instrument are equally important...