Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...GROUP" must mean more than the sum of its two words. Does every group of women, gathered for whatever purpose, fit into this category? Probably not. Otherwise feminists could not use the term so freely when they wanted to indicate a radical gathering of like-minded women to foster social change for the benefit of women...
Cool Comfort. Plastics will be under particular pressure. Foster Grant, a manufacturer of sunglasses and plastic resins for industry, is already faced with shortages of petrochemicals. As Martin Fox of Revlon Inc. notes: "There is a world shortage of plastic resins. The feeling in the plastics trade is that things are getting worse." Ironically, customers may have to search for a substitute for plastic, which is itself a substitute material. One example is the auto industry, which since 1960 has increased the amount of plastics in the average car from 20 Ibs. to 138 Ibs. Auto manufacturers have lately drawn...
...million package is the biggest project involving Americans to be started in Egypt since 1956, when John Foster Dulles, then Secretary of State, withdrew an offer of U.S. aid for the Aswan High Dam. Appropriately enough, it was arranged by an Egyptian-born Lebanese: reddish-haired, bespectacled Roger Tamraz, 34, a Harvard Business School graduate who heads Kidder, Peabody's Mideast office. He plucked the contract from a consortium of 16 European firms that had signed a preliminary agreement to build the pipeline in 1971. Says Tamraz: "It was straight out of the golden age of merchant banking, before...
...lady meant exactly what she said. Her two most recent books have been about professions as well as people. Significantly, they are professions that are deeply revered and mistrusted for their power over life. Last year's Wonderland was about doctors-an old medical megalomaniac and his foster son. The new novel, her sixth, concerns lawyers. Marvin Howe is a Nietzschean criminal lawyer-vainglorious, corrupt, wondrously successful, obsessed with his control over people. His opposite number is less obviously a monster. Jack Morrissey defends social outcasts and agitators, the teeming poor of Detroit. He lives simply, but is just...
Safran spoke at an open forum on the Mid-East held last night at Lowell Lecture Hall. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the war rather than to foster pro-Israeli sentiments...