Word: firm
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Researchers at the bureau have access to a larger data base and a small databank service from Data Resources Institute (DRI), a publicly-held forecasting firm where Eckstein works half time for half pay. DRI provides the services free as a professional courtesy to economists solving large systems of complicated equations or developing simulation models...
...very funny feeling to wake up suddenly and realize that it's time for the 25th Reunion," Stephen Weiner '54, now a partner in a New York law firm, said yesterday as he stood outside the Union. "This is something I'd heard about since I was a freshman at Harvard--I didn't come for any of the others, but when it came time for the 25th I told the family we had to make the trip," he added...
...that the Shah should be assassinated "in any country where found." The crowds in Tehran were particularly vociferous in attacking New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits, who introduced the resolution, and his wife Marion, who helped obtain the Iran Air account for a New York public relations firm...
...bind to particular receptors. Whatever drug is in the patient's blood displaces the test chemical at these sites, and the radioactive tracer left behind can easily be measured, giving doctors a precise indication of the levels of the prescribed drug in the blood-and thus a firm indication of how the body is utilizing...
Against these detailed backgrounds, the characters are mere outlines. Walter Blackett, head of Blackett and Webb, the firm whose farflung enterprises frame most of the novel's action, is a buccaneer abroad and a fond family man at home. Yet Blackett is such a compleat capitalist that he is willing to trade his daughter like a commodity in order to pump up the profits. His opposite is young Matthew Webb, a bumbling idealist who despises colonialism but offers no better alternative than a vague new brotherhood...