Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long-range view-because productivity rises more slowly in the service field than in manufacturing. The assembly line is missing, the possibilities of automation scant; machinery can do little to speed up the output of the barber, the bartender, the cop, or the bureaucrat. Yet, in order to hold workers in a period of full employment, the service field has to. raise wages as industrial wages rise. And the result of higher wages without higher productivity is higher prices. "The trouble," concludes Dale, "is that our society, more than any other in all history, spends its money on non-things...
...banks negotiated a $100 million loan from a U.S. syndicate headed by Chase Manhattan Bank. Last week Ramadier himself introduced a $285 million government bond issue on terms so generous that it will cost the government $20 million a year in interest and bonuses, and investors lucky enough to hold the first bonds retired stand to earn a fat 15% on their money...
...House, which is still being planned by University architects, will cost approximately five million dollars and hold about 350 students. It will, according to President Pusey, draw off the current overcrowding from other Houses and may also be used as a starting point for the College's proposed 15 to 20 percent expansion over the next decade...
...designed to "give answers." Rather, he thinks, isn't a course supposed to inspire us to ask more questions? But in Ec 1 students are given no basis for comparison; they are exposed to no other frame of reference but that one pushed by the instructors, who almost all hold the same point of view. How then will we be able to ask the right questions? To some students it is a real imposition to be subjected to such a narrow, one-sided approach...
...first of these is the Scholar of the House program, in which courses are optional for a group of about twelve exceptional seniors. They hold biweekly meetings, and read papers to each other, while pursuing reading and writing under the guidance of a person who is equivalent to a tutor...