Word: forcefullness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The story involved the type of heuristic thinking Church enjoys most. How, for example, have capitalist societies drifted into what Smith would have regarded as an unnatural combination: inflation in the midst of recession? Has Smith's "invisible hand" of supply and demand lost its grip? To find the...
Ken Jamieson's successor as chair man and chief executive officer will be Exxon's current president, Clifton Garvin, 53, a forceful if taciturn Virginia-born engineer who rose through the corporate ranks via the company's burgeoning chemical operations. The new president: Howard C. Kauffmann, 52...
Last week a five-member panel of priests and laymen voted 3 to 2 to find Wendt guilty. The three priests in the majority (the two dissenters were the laymen) urged Washington Bishop William Creighton to "admonish" Wendt and forbid him to permit "any person whose ordination is not in...
Many prosecutors contend that civil actions of the kind brought against Equitable are ineffective. Joseph D'Alessandro, state attorney in Fort Myers, says the companies involved "just take off one hat and put on another." Last July the Securities and Exchange Commission forced Homestate to stop selling notes, but...
Exley's major problem is his inability to latch on--to his wife or jobs or American life. Somehow he was never bequeathed the necessary ambition or stamina. Because he has no roots, he travels, and Notes is full of encounters with odd characters that evoke a bittersweet mixture of...