Word: fit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them for the most inhumane and obnoxious ends. Men of technical reason, as skilled at killing as at helping, progressively unconcerned with the distinction, and unaware that value resides anywhere but in techniques itself. So, crippled reason pays obeisance to power and the faculty in man most fit to nurture life becomes the instrument of violence and death...
Like a giant moth attempting to break out of a cocoon, Soviet Communism is trying to rid itself of a doctrine conceived a century ago in a far different world. Though Lenin had to revise Marx to fit the Russian pattern, it was Nikita Khrushchev who launched the official decline of the doctrine. Faced with the necessity of solving countless economic and social problems, today's Soviet planners find such Marxist theories as class revolution and "the dictatorship of the proletariat" just plain nuisances. The Chinese are right, of course: the Russians are revisionists. In a very real sense...
...share value of $35 for each of 5,500,000 Sheraton shares outstanding. Making the $193 million bid was Harold S. Geneen (TIME cover, Sept. 8), chairman-president of the vast conglomerate International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. Sheraton and its 129 U.S. hotels and motels, together with 25 overseas, should fit nicely into ITT's "consumer services" group, which already includes Avis, Airport Parking Co. and 16 Holiday Inn franchises. For the time being, at least, Geneen will let Henderson and Boonisar run his 45th acquisition...
...those who were in Washington getting their heads bashed in, it all seemed to fit. That is why Israel was smiling, looking like Oral Roberts hearing the faithful just come straight up out of the congregation to testify...
Most successful of these is five-year-old Chesham Amalgamations & Investments Ltd. Finding a proper fit for its 400 clients is arduous work, normally involving research into 4,000 prospects annually and resulting in a meager three mergers a month. Explains Chesham Director Nicholas Stacey: "Our job is to explore the field in which our client is interested and find the most suitable company for his needs. Then we negotiate and put a valuation on it for him. Finally, we stamp on our 'Good Housekeeping seal...