Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nonwhites now constitute almost the only untapped or underused reservoir of labor. Moreover, businessmen recognize that the economic health of cities is vital to the health of their own companies. The recent push by U.S. business to employ "hardcore jobless" has moved beyond tokenism to a substantial commitment to help quiet the smoldering volcano of urban unrest...
...government in late 1966, the I.R.C. is authorized to draw up. to $360 million from the national treasury to promote and help finance regroupings in British industry. To many opposition Tories and business leaders, the I.R.C. smacks of "back door nationalization," under which the government could wind up with a dominant voice in the new industrial combines that it fosters. In fact, the I.R.C.'s own managing director, Merchant Banker Ronald Grierson, made no secret of his growing distaste for Wilson's interventionist economic policies, finally quit his post last October...
...profession that prides itself on impeccable dignity, Atlanta Banker Mills B. Lane Jr., 56, often seems downright outlandish. To help promote Georgia's fledgling woolen industry, he once brought in a herd of sheep to graze in his bank's main lobby. Emphasizing the virtues of teamwork, he has arrived at official meetings decked out in baseball and football uniforms. At one meeting, anxious to rev up competition among his bank's various branches, he showed up at the wheel of a child's toy car. And to make the point that the bank...
...left-wing Laborites who tend to feel that it has accomplished too little. Though limited in staff size as well as funds, the I.R.C. has indeed played an active role in relatively few of the country's many recent mergers. One of its notable public achievements was its help, including a $42 million loan, in arranging the marriage of Elliott-Automation and English Electric into a single $990 million-a-year computer-making company. The I.R.C. has also worked behind the scenes on even bigger deals, including General Electric Co. Ltd.'s acquisition of Associated Electrical Industries...
...lunch into a bibulous burlesque, hectoring his family, grumping at the BBC, and lecturing his little friend on some of the ways to tell a Jew ("They smell bad"). In his first movie role, young Alain Cohen survives country living and the reality of imbecile anti-Semitism with the help of two sharp eyes, an impish grin, and a pair of the most perkily prominent ears in France...