Word: firm
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Only last week did it become clear what was really angering the French. Stories appeared in the generally pro-Gaullist Le Figaro and France-Soir hinting that the French had offered Britain a new chance to demonstrate a firm commitment to Europe, only to have their overture rejected. Furiously, Whitehall put its side of the story on record. At a luncheon in Paris on Feb. 4 with Britain's Ambassador to France, Christopher Soames, an avid pro-European who is Winston Churchill's son-in-law, De Gaulle-according to the British account-proposed that the two countries...
...university corporations, but on the entrepreneurial schemes of professors. Ridgeway describes J. Sterling Livingston, professor at the Harvard Business School, who has established six companies of his own since World War II. Ithiel de Sola Pool, professor of Political Science at M.I.T., works at the social problem solving firm Simulmatics for a minimum annual consulting fee of $5000. Under certain circumstances, he gets $100 a day. Last year Pool headed a secret program at Simulmatics for the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency, trying to figure out way to get Viet Cong to defect. George Baker, dean of the Harvard...
Laing uses the concept of experience to provide a phenomenological approach to psychology. Thus, for Laing, experience includes and combines perception, imagination, fantasy, reverie, dream and memory. He is firm that experience "is not 'subjective' rather than 'objective', not 'inner' rather than 'outer', not process rather than praxis, not some doubtful data dredged up from introspection rather than extro-spection." Experience is the totality arising from the resolution of all these dichotomies, a sum greater than its parts. Behavior is only the external manifestation of experience, the sign of one person's experience that can be experienced by another. Experience...
Volpe also announced on Monday the appointment of Secor D. Browne '38, a professor at M.I.T., as assistant secretary for Research and Technology. Browne taught air transport at M.I.T. and was president of Browne and Shaw Co., a mechanical engineering firm. Browne has recently been involved in trade negotiations involving air transport and was one of the chief architects of the agreement which started direct plane service between New York and Moscow...
...letter that specifically contradicts the decision of the Faculty, it is painfully clear that the two decisions don't look at all the same. In particular, a number of Faculty members are unhappy that the Corporation chose to interpret the Faculty's refusal to abolish ROTC as a firm decision to retain it. The distinction seems clear enough to the people who participated in the ROTC debate at Harvard, but it is hardly a distinction that the Corporation could have been expected to respect. Nevertheless, the effect is distressing to many. "The debates were generally quite hostile to ROTC," said...