Word: fonds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...East African correspondent for TIME during the 1960s, William Smith has written a study that is less of a treatise on African nationalism and politics than a fond, informal portrait of one of postcolonial Africa's most engaging leaders. Nyerere, now 50, the son of a chief of Tanganyika's relatively minor Zanaki tribe, was raised in a cluster of mud huts and sent off to a government school at twelve. He became a teacher of biology and history, and studied for three years at the University of Edinburgh. Back in Tanganyika, he was increasingly drawn into...
...miles from London. My grandmother is no rich, but my grandfather was a knight, and so she has a certain position to maintain. For years Mrs. Aslett (or perhaps it was Haslett: no one know) has come in every day except Sunday to cock and clean, My grandmother is fond of her in an irritated sort of way: "She's a good soul, but she does creep about the house...
William C. Norris was once fond of claiming that Control Data Corp., the company that he formed nearly 15 years ago, was destined to play Ford in the computer industry to IBM's General Motors. And indeed he put together with astonishing speed a company that by 1968 was making more money selling and leasing computers than anyone except IBM. But now the Minneapolis-based CDC looks more like a computer Edsel. Its share of the global market has dwindled to 2.7%, from 4.2% four years ago, and in the past two years it has lost more than...
...case, the ad seemed to be achieving its stated goal. As of last week, according to the local Association of Commerce, 50 companies had requested more information on relocating in Fond du Lac, and six were seriously negotiating...
...part of a $45,000 campaign to attract new industry to the Fond du Lac area, about 65 miles north of Milwaukee. But there was an immediate protest that the ad was actually a volley of crew-cut propaganda. It did seem to play on any good burgher's fear of the standard counterculture sins: drugs and VD, the death of the work ethic, draft dodging, and maybe some glint of Charles Manson...