Word: eras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cohn denies that he has any personal dislike of the company's chairman, but readily admits that "I'm anti-Establishment when it comes to people like Ford." With his great power, Cohn says, Henry Ford "represents an era of American business that supposedly went out of style with the turn of the century." Cohn's suit was brought on behalf of a handful of stockholders. The suit charges, among other things, that Henry Ford, who scarcely needs money: 1) pocketed $2 million from the "highest officials of the Philippines government" in exchange for building a stamping...
...young, diverse, impressive-the kind of mix Brown wants to enroll. The group visits almost 1,000 high schools in the fall. A network of 2,900 loyal alumni follow up with interviewing and more recruiting. They tell high school students that Brown is remarkably relaxed in an era of grade grubbing; that Brown has a beautiful campus; that Providence is not as blighted as it looks from Interstate 95; that nearly every Brown student who applies to grad school gets in. They are telling the truth, and Brown students confirm it on the college-high school grapevine...
...McCloskey offers, young people have no choice but to serve. The estimated $20 billion cost of compulsory service seems better spent on ensuring freedom of choice while making the volunteer army a more attractive alternative. The fear of the draft has returned and, in the post-Vietnam era, this is one ghost legislators might do better to exorcise away...
...Vietnam War era, Levenson turned to the question of provincialism and cosmopolitanism, what Frederic Wakeman has called "a key issue still in the People's Republic today: how much can be taken in bits and pieces without altering the basic system." In the lone volume of an uncompleted trilogy, and a few articles, Levenson concentrated on the dilemmas of a people in whom provincial and cosmopolitan tendences were then colliding in the massive outbreak of the Cultural Revolution...
...great struggle to right wrongs, fiscal irresponsibility didn't matter, because the city had a clear conscience. So the city borrowed too much money because it could always be paid back later, paid its employees too much money because they were the underdogs of another era and taxed its businesses too heavily because it was good to take from the rich and give to the poor. In the end, everyone lost-out, or left...