Word: helpfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trail below. The turns were three hard "switchbacks," like the five or so immediately before them. The trail was filled with ice-water and slush that reached mid-calf. It took at least five minutes to reach the hikers. During those five minutes fear and worry vanished. People meant help. They would know how much farther to the end, to Whitney Portal, they would be able to put the wool shirt on me and get out wool socks to use as gloves...
China will own the hotels but Intercontinental will share the profits and run the inns for ten years or so while local managers are trained. Intercontinental will also help arrange financing for the chain, which will cost perhaps $500 million or more...
Peking hopes that tourism will provide foreign exchange needed to help pay for its ambitious economic development plans. Indeed, Intercontinental's hopes of pioneering in China (other firms will also surely be invited in) got a crucial lift last October, when Pan Am Chairman William T. Sea well had a meeting in Peking with China's Deputy Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, who is the regime's leading proponent of rapid development...
...deal will help SSC&B to act on a long-postponed plan to buy out the 51% of the Lintas agency network still owned by Unilever, the British-Dutch food, detergents and toiletries concern. SSC&B bought 49% of Lintas from Unilever in 1970, but until now has been unable to pull together enough capital to make good on an option to buy the rest...
...Welsh lad of sublime simplicity, encounters five knights galloping after distressed damsels. At first he takes the warriors for angels, but when he learns they are men like him self, he sets out to find King Arthur, that famous knight maker. Perceval's mother had told him to help ladies in trouble but to expect no more than a kiss, and perhaps a ring, in return. He misreads her advice and, finding a lady lounging happily in her tent, yanks off her ring and steals seven kisses...