Word: firm
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William W. Nash, professor of City Planning, and Francois C. Vigier, associate professor of City Planning and Urban Design, are consulting with the Planning Board through their firm, Nash-Vigier. The Planning Board, which is located in the Virgin Islands, is headed by a Harvard graduate and includes four other Harvard graduates and a number of Islanders educated at Harvard...
Here is where the events of last Saturday became tragic: the military treated anti-war resistance just as they would have handled common criminals. Had they arrested demonstrators in a firm but orderly fashion, instead of clubbing them before dragging them to the paddywagons, the violence would have been contained. Instead of provoking a bloodbath, the U.S. Marshals could have confronted each of the demonstrators individually, told him that he was under arrest for trespassing and lead him away. Certainly by nightfall, when most of the press had left, the large majority of the demonstrators would have preferred this...
...town. In 1962-63, this subsidy, plus energetic recruiting by Skelm, attracted so many factories so quickly that a housing shortage resulted. In Runcorn, two years later, Wilson's restrictive economic policy so discouraged industrial expansion that the new town could not bring in a single large firm...
Baird's credentials are impressive. Ten years ago, after four years of college and one of medical school, he joined a drug firm and became a consultant and specialist on contraceptive products. In 1964 he was hired by EMKO as a clinical director, which meant that he lectured to medical associations and hospital staffs on the use of the EMKO contraceptive for married couples...
...Prime Minister said that he wants the Americans to leave Vietnam eventually. But now, he stressed, the United States must show strong military counterforce. Firm American resolve would probably make the North Vietnamese willing to negotiate, Lee said...