Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Securities and Exchange Commission--and with just a fraction of the students that it hopes to eventually have, Federal City College is trying to do some innovative things in education. It is trying to make education relevant to poor blacks who have grown up in a city, to help them use what they have learned, and to learn from their experience...
...should be axiomatic that the ultimate success or failure of black capitalism will depend on the blacks themselves. Negroes, so long denied opportunities, have a strong argument for special help. At some point, other businessmen are bound to complain that such aid gives Negroes an unfair competitive advantage. But for now, black capitalism has proved to be a beneficent form of black power, moving gradually toward the kind of green power that has led every other group upward in American society...
...year ago, his government began claiming that IPC owed $144 million in back taxes, the total amount of profits that the company earned in Peru during the previous 15 years. Then the two sides struck the August compromise: Peru would take ownership of the fields, but IPC would help operate them under contract. Simultaneously, the government scrubbed its $144 million claim and gave IPC the right to expand its operations elsewhere. That was hardly the sort of get-tough deal favored by the rebellious military men-or by Peruvians in general...
Pour la Patrie. Though bargain rates should put TV within reach of many companies, the number that can exploit the new advertising opportunity is limited by stiff government restrictions. Half the plugs must boost sales of certain food products to help French farmers unload their surpluses. The rest are equally divided between textiles and electric appliances, whose makers have been hurt by foreign competition. For non-French products, the chances of appearing on French TV screens are small. Before letting a commercial go on the air, the government has to be satisfied that its message serves the interests...
...company willing to produce my new disc." Meanwhile, Bruce continues his struggle to increase his musical powers by writing inventions in the style of Bach. "Two part inventions are hard, but it's the three-part ones that are a real gas." He does all this without the help of a piano. His songs are always conceived as total entities. Most of the cuts on "Fresh Cream" were written out in full score, again without the aid of a piano. I asked him the meaning of the title to one of these songs, "N.S.U." "That stands for nonspecific urethritis which...