Word: egos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...January to as low as 30% at one point last month; it closed last week at 37. Lately, ITT shares have sold for as little as eight times annual per-share earnings, a low for the Geneen era. That is a painful blow to corporate ego. ITT executives have long pointed proudly to the company's record of profit growth, thus implying that its stock should sell at a price-earnings multiple considerably higher than that of the blue chips in the Dow Jones average-which currently go for a composite 14.2 times earnings...
...surprised to see white faces after two days with beautiful black sisters," Cross said. "My ego has gone through a lot of changes at Harvard. It was good to share common problems and goals, and advice on how to get there," she said
...with a decade of hard work and good living still left to him, John O'Hara published Sermons and Soda-Water, a collection of three novellas written in the voice of James Malloy, the writer's most obvious fictional alter ego. Like O'Hara, Malloy was the son of a small-town doctor, had been a newspaper reporter, pressagent and screenwriter. Now he was introduced as a successful novelist devoting himself to "the last, simple but big task of putting it all down as well as I knew how." This book was, as Finis Farr notes...
...intellectually gifted women fail to manifest their talents because they (rightly) fear social rejection? Or that the University perpetuates the inequalities of society by a lopsided admissions policy? Or that until recently the law would not allow women control over their own bodies? Or that primitive taboos and male ego-centricism have inhibited even the development of proper medical care for women...
Kissinger has devised a totally new diplomatic approach. He brought a special compassion for human misery and an understanding of the political problems of other men that in the end transcended even the awesome Kissinger ego. That compassion is rooted in his past, and there is no better explanation than his simple statement: "My father was a very loving...