Word: firmnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state travelers. But the majority pointed out that the owners advertised in periodicals that were available at tourist centers. Even though Lake Nixon provided no spectator sports, the court declared, it was a place of public entertainment. Besides, it had leased 15 paddle boats from an Oklahoma firm, its jukebox was made in another state, and the ingredients of three out of four items served at the snack bar come from outside Arkansas...
...facts are summed up in a new study prepared for the nation's top five orchestras-New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Cleveland and Chicago-by the management-consultant firm of McKinsey & Co. Because rocketing costs -most notably, sharply increased salary scales-have not been met by a similar gain in income, the orchestras' combined annual operating deficit rose from $2.9 million in 1964 to $5.7 million in 1968. The loss will soar to $8,000,000 by the 1971-72 season unless drastic steps are taken...
...would probably be better for Harvard to follow Yale's lead in this area. The treasurer of Yale is an employee named by the university. He makes investment decisions with the help of an investment firm, established and half-owned by Yale. And the university's funds receive priority in the market over the firm's own funds...
...School, 20 students demonstrated outside the placement office while recruiters from a New York law firm talked with students inside. The demonstrators said the firm--Milban, Tweed, Hadley, and McCoy--helped oppress black people in South Africa by representing Chase Manhattan Bank, which has investments in South African industry...
...university--any university--has a distinctive competence, a special nature. That competence is not to serve as a government, or a consulting firm, or a polity, or a pressure group, or a family, or a kind of secularized church; it is to serve as a center of learning and free inquiry. Because of the devotion to learning, and a belief in the importance of ideas, people come together in universities; and it is an awareness, however dim and however cluttered by departmental and disciplinary boundaries, of that common devotion that makes the members of a university feel they are part...