Word: firmnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vice-president for finances and administration. "When a person walks onto our campus," he said this summer, "we want him to feel as if he is walking through his community, that he is not walking into some ivory-towered academic factory." For this purpose, FCC has hired a firm of black architects who have had experience in urban planning and development...
...months of wrangling, the School Committee and the City Council agreed on the relocatable classrooms, and this summer awarded a contract for them to Relocatable Homes Inc. of Winchester. The City is renting the buildings for two years, at a cost of $100,000 a year, from the Winchester firm. The City has an option to buy the buildings and keep them for other uses after the two years...
...corporate executive lunches with his firm's president and discovers that hard times are ahead. Would he be wrong to dump his own holdings in the corporation's stock...
...private power company that wisely had begun branching into chemicals, steel and other goods before Italy nationalized power in 1962. Soon after the merger, I.R.I. and ENI began secretly buying Montedison stock. By last week they had accumulated at least 15% of the stock, making the government the firm's largest single shareholder. The state-run corporations set UD a new shareholders' syndicate, in which ENI-I.R.I. will have an equal voice with a group of private holding companies. "Let's face it," said a major shareholder, "the state group is more equal than the private...
...right to pass the final word on certain business deals. He must, for example, approve any arrangement that would deliver more than 20% of a French company into foreign hands. Last week De Gaulle used his veto to upset a planned union of France's troubled Citroen auto firm with...