Word: far-off
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...under pressure to seek more than profit and security, but it is still unclear just how far society-and the stockholders-expect him to depart from those traditional goals. Should he favor the poor borrower over the rich one? The black over the white? The local community over the far-off one? And who is to decide? The Raiders believe that, for example, the bankers have an obligation to finance slum housing, even if they have to offer special mortgage rates so low that they lose money. When confronted with that argument, one Citibanker asked: "What does that...
...Frenchmen paid him homage. The world's dignitaries journeyed to Paris for a memorial service in greater numbers than for any other event in French history. Le Monde called it "a planetary mourning." Flags were lowered to half-mast not only in Paris but also in London and far-off Peking. Among thousands of condolence messages that reached Madame de Gaulle was one from China's Chairman, Mao Tse-tung, who also sent a funeral wreath...
...many a New York City taxi. But his pleasures are real enough?whisky, the bowling alley, a gun collection?and so are his yearnings for a taste of life on the other side of the middle-class line. The blue collar worker wants to take a vacation in some far-off place, but usually cannot. He likes to go out to a restaurant, but seldom does. He spends most of his free time at home, tries to avoid thinking about the job when he is away from it and tends to have a close-knit family life, raising his children...
Hastily summoned to Nassau last week, Gramco's directors assembled in marathon meetings, occasionally sending out for hamburgers and Chivas Regal. Meantime, employees at Gramco's mock colonial headquarters fended off a flood of transocean phone calls from anxious shareholders in many far-off countries. Emerging from one meeting, Vice President Joseph Jordan delivered a pep talk to worried USIF salesmen. "We are solvent," he said. "If we have to, we'll clear the deck-tighten our belts, cut officers' salaries, drop employees. I get nothing. The shareholders will get paid." That, of course, remains...
NOAM CHOMSKY would like to talk about the current state of affairs in Southeast Asia. He'd like to remind the American public that there is still a vicious little war tucked away in that far-off corner of the world, a fact which most of us apparently have forgotten. There must be a streak of naivete in that man, for him not to realize that discussion of Vietnam has fallen a trifle out of vogue in familiar circles, that students and citizens and Congressmen have basically dropped the subject to move on to more novel and important concerns...