Word: dust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Merrill Lynch's Equity Income Fund First Exchange Series, the first of the Humpty-Dumpty funds, has already attracted 6 million shares from 20,000 customers. Explains Merrill Lynch Vice President Norman Schvey: "The fund is a holding operation until the dust clears. What the investor gains is a chance to think...
...paradoxes can be traced in a single two-day trip down the Yangtze from Chongqing to Wuhan. In Chongqing I visit an electronics plant that makes oscilloscopes and instruments for testing TV equipment. Dust-free and climate-controlled, the plant requires visitors to don clean slippers before entering. Inside are young women of 20 to 25 making circuit panels. They are only three or four years out of the paddy fields, but their product is superior...
...journey raises more questions than answers, and the questions plague the Chinese themselves. Why are some young women working in dust-free plants while others slave at muscle work? Who shall be privileged to join at the cutting edge of new enterprise, who left behind? How much relief from suffering can the Zhongyang give its people now, without stealing time and resources from the China of tomorrow...
...quit Harvard seven years ago, after completing my freshman year, to become a fashion model, I did so to escape the entire mental process. The monumental intellectual confidence which I'd towed into the Yard at the beginning of Freshman Week had flaked, chipped, and then crumbled to dust during the following months. Rejection from a freshman seminar, encounters with disdainful professors, mindboggling conversations with Presidential scholars, along with the first C-plus of my life, had the combined effort of linking thinking and misery together in my mind...
...battle over DNA research taught Harvard a number of lessons. Even science has its obligation to deal openly with the public. I think all of us are better off for having fought that one out. And now that the dust has settled. I like to think that I can include Mathew Meselson and Walter Gilbert on my list of friends. I suspect that they feel the same...