Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though the offer would come to $35 a share for stock that had been selling in the $23 to $26 range, Woolworth angrily rejected it. Chairman Edward Gibbons called the bid "grossly inadequate" and said that it raised "moral and ethical questions of the most serious nature." Woolworth has brushed...
There were, however, great Orientalist scholars; there were genuine attempts, like that of Richard Burton [British explorer who translated the Arabian Nights], at coming to terms with Islam. Still, gross ignorance persisted, as it will whenever fear of the different gets translated into attempts at domination. The U.S. inherited the...
From the ways that Liang though while the traditional culture of Imperial China crumbled about him, from the constructions he put on thoughts that had been expressed in other times or places, Levenson hoped to extract insights on the dilemmas faced when cultures clash. When he stated the thesis of...
Once there were not enough hours in the imperial day for all he sought to accomplish as that political rara avis, a 20th century absolute monarch. Now there are too many. Time hangs heavy for Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the deposed Shah of Iran, in exile with Empress Farah and their...
Show business is only as good as its stars, and NBC never really recovered. CBS swift ly surpassed its rivals in both radio and TV, and remained serenely ahead, an al most imperial power, until it was finally topped by ABC in 1976.