Word: firm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have served ever since John Kennedy took office eight years ago, have no desire to do so. Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman, one of J.F.K.'s first appointees, announced even before the election that he would resign to head Washington's EDP Technology International Inc., a firm which uses computer technology to solve client countries' sociological and military problems. Wilbur Cohen, who joined the Kennedy Administration as an Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in 1961 and eventually succeeded John Gardner, will go back to teaching at the University of Michigan in the School of Social...
...CRIMSON report of Monday's meeting left the impression that some members were more interested in radical rhetoric than in results. The HUC is now in the process of establishing a firm commitment to real and responsible student participation in decision-making. We can do this only with a further commitment to following through on our proposals with hard-work and well-reasoned arguments. Neither shallow nor egocentric argumentation will achieve the desired ends; our means must be much more realistic. Maintaining a seriousness of purpose, maturity, diligence, and perseverance is more in keeping with the progress made by student...
...romance held firm until Dowling left the Mid-West to come to Yale. "I almost died," Sue said at the time. "Yes, it was hard leaving her," Brian recalls, "but I wanted to go to Yale and play football." Sue has since married, Marvin Plumb, a tractor salesman...
...Gulf & Western, the stakes were obviously worth fighting for. Under Judelson and Chairman Charles Bluhdorn, who put the firm together a decade ago and who remains very much the man in charge, Gulf & Western has become a $1.3 billion-a-year conglomerate by buying up some 70 companies in fields as diverse as metals (New Jersey Zinc) and movies (Paramount). But it has never been in the oil business. For its part, Sinclair is the nation's tenth biggest oil company; its 1967 sales were $1.5 billion and its profits $95.4 million. Because it has a relatively small amount...
...kind of data that resulted in the introduction two months ago of a new blade-angle adjustment on its bestselling Techmatic Razor. To design a more comfortable and efficient shooting jacket for Olin Mathieson's Winchester-Western rifle subsidiary, Connecticut-based Dunlap & Associates, a leading industrial-consulting firm, spent months studying where existing jackets were binding and where more freedom of movement was required...