Word: help
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...choice, he went about applying with typical directness; he marched straight to the office of the president. Advised that the college had closed its admissions for the year, he nonetheless so impressed the authorities that they made room for him-and gave him a scholarship as well. To help put himself through college, he worked as a postal clerk, waiter, shoe salesman and mess boy on an oil tanker; he also wrote business articles for the New York Herald Tribune...
...said Lenin, "periodically restores the disturbed equilibrium" of a capitalist system. That comment, which is often echoed in the Communist world today, will not help his followers explain Wall Street's reaction to the Viet Nam Moratorium. A sea of demonstrators poured into Wall and adjoining streets, crowding them so tightly that people could hardly move. Hundreds of custom-tailored bankers and brokerage-house partners joined their clerks and college students in a peace march, braving the jeers of hard-hatted steamfitters who tried to stage a counterdemonstration. The peace marchers jammed into a memorial service at Trinity Church...
Crap Game. Undaunted, companies go right on turning out new products. Last week Honeywell introduced a $10,600 "kitchen computer" programmed to help the U.S. housewife plan her meals and balance her checkbook. Though Honeywell might sell some to millionaires who have everything, the product could be the precursor of much cheaper small computers for the home; other companies are already working on the idea. Singer recently announced that its Friden office-equipment division will bring out at least one new product a month for the next year. "Developing new products is like a gigantic crap game," says Boone Gross...
Operating subsidies are essentially designed to keep fares on U.S. liners competitive with Greek, Panamanian and other foreign-flag ships by offsetting the wage differential between U.S. and foreign seamen. The rationale has been that U.S. citizens sailing on American ships help narrow the balance of payments deficit by spending their ticket money with domestic instead of foreign companies. It is doubtful, however, that the balance of payments gains are worth spending so much taxpayers' money in the form of subsidies...
...Help from Raquel. It would please Steinberg if the U.S. financial community would also accept him as the sobersided entrepreneur that he believes himself to be. He started his company with $25,000 borrowed from his father, bought IBM computers and leased them to users at rates below IBM's own rental charges. He could undercut IBM's prices because he was willing to risk depreciating the computers over eight instead of four years, gambling successfully on a longer useful life of the equipment. From this base he moved into related fields, buying a container-leasing company...