Word: finding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Columbia (enrollment: 18,000), Heard would find troubles that dwarf any he encountered in Nashville. The university faces the possibility of more disruptions by radical students this fall. Its newly established student-faculty governing committee, set up to make the university administration more democratic, is still untested. Several of the professional schools have encroached upon the power of the presidency, and the university expects a crushing $11 million budget deficit next year...
...Bethlehem refuse to comment. The Port Authority reports only that the intricacies of multiple-contract construction-in some cases seven companies are providing steel for a single floor of the Trade Center-have caused no delays or problems. If so, other steel users may find that parceling out work among small firms is less expensive and more efficient than awarding it to the lumbering giants...
...when he died last week at 77, the best way that associates could find to explain his success was to note that he had an extraordinary ability to make people like and trust him. So they sought his advice, followed his call to Washington and, when they had new securities to market, brought them to him at Goldman, Sachs & Co., the investment banking house in which Weinberg was senior partner...
...world has a large stake in the outcome of Japan's struggle for change. A free-trading Japan, expanding its programs to develop other Asian economies, could do much to narrow the gap between the world's rich and poor countries. If Japan's businessmen can find ways to open their economy to foreign influence and domestic reform, while preserving their system's virtues of harmony and discipline, then the 21st century-and perhaps even the closing years of the 20th century-may indeed be Japan...
...conceived, wrote, directed and stars in Marry Me, Marry Me, Berri knows better than to make his film a one-man show. The best performances, in fact, are given not by the youths but by their satiated elders who long ago seized life by the throat-only to find that they had killed it. The best of a talented troupe is Isabelle's much older sister, Marthe (Regine), a doughy redhead who believes that sex appeal, like flour, is measured by the pound. As Isabelle's hag-ridden father, Gregoire Asian can convey more with a lowered eyelid...