Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ideological and cultural plane the leadership has made concessions to taste and common sense. Jazz, long considered a degenerate Western art form, was recently given a three-day hearing at a symposium sponsored by officials of the Communist Youth organization and the Soviet Composers' Union. Though no firm conclusion as to its merits for Soviet society was reached, Russian jazz buffs were encouraged. Among other things going for them: Kosygin has one of the largest jazz record collections inside Russia. More important, the duumvirate fired Khrushchev's hated chief ideologue Leonid Ilyichev, replaced him with Party Secretary Petr...
McKeen's 16-year term as president will be a tough act to follow. Under his leadership, Pfizer grew from a $47 million specialized drug firm in 1949 into a highly diversified company whose sales reached $480 million last year. Powers, however, has already demonstrated his talent in an important supporting role. In 1951, impressed by Pfizer's growing number of unsolicited foreign orders-, which accounted for $10 million annually in sales-he persuaded McKeen to allow him to begin building an overseas operation. "I figured that if we could do $10 million worth of business without seeking...
...Successo. At 38, Giulio considers himself a flop. He is a college graduate, a good-looking loser employed by a real estate firm in a job he describes as "unemployment on the executive level." A comfortable apartment, a beautiful working wife (Anouk Aimee) and a faithful friend (Jean-Louis Trintignant) cannot change his status as one of the lesser people at Rome's better parties. Other men drive up in Maseratis and Jaguars; Giulio (Vittorio Gassman) arrives in a Fiat so humble that he won't admit it is his, even after hearing that it has been dented...
...Mauro Morassi pries the lid off Italy's affluent society and pulls out one wriggling, upwardly mobile nobody who yearns for the sweet life at any cost. Money gives a man courage, Giulio decides, but he can ill afford courage until he starts skimping on ethics. When his firm buys land for a housing development in Sardinia, Giulio secretly snaps up an adjacent property, signing a postdated check that commits him to a venture in fast-lira speculation...
...Wilson's idea is not to transform the Joint Center from an intellectual clearing house into an all-purpose consulting firm. His hope is to maintain "a balance between permissive basic research and some organized collaborative efforts...