Word: ince
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Otto Eckstein, Professor of Economics, founded Data Resources Inc. (DRI) in 1969 he probably knew that he would be at the forefront of the now booming econometric forecasting business. But what he probably did not know is that he would be the leader of a flock of Harvard professors who are currently going outside the University to supplement their academic salaries. "I could never live on my academic salary," says Eckstein. "Indeed I don't see how anyone...
...person working in his part of the building, the brick part, these days. There are two other offices there, but both are empty. Taxman, an income-tax company, is closed in the off- (not near April 15) season and will reopen in January, as it does every year. AID, Inc., which finds temporary employees for businesses, is shut down for good. Business was bad in the Concord Building, and AID is scouting for a new location...
Meantime, a House subcommittee looking into the secret Government monitoring of international cables and phone calls was told by its investigators that for years agents of either the FBI or the National Security Agency had visited the Washington offices of RCA Global Communications Inc. at 3 a.m. each day to photograph the cables that interested them. Similarly, the investigators said, FBI agents went to ITT World Communications Inc. in Washington every day and collected copies of all cables going to and coming from a selected list of countries. The practices apparently were continued until last spring, when the pressure...
...give our democracy social and economic content or we might meet the same fate that has been met by other nations in Latin America." So said Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez, answering questions about the military threat to democracy in Latin America put by Time Inc. Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan and Chairman of the Board Andrew Heiskell. Pérez, the widely-respected President of an oil-rich nation that is one of Latin America's few democracies, was interrupted by martial music from a military band passing below the window of his office...
...Opponents of greater Government involvement in medical care often argue that legislation to cover the cost of catastrophic illness would add enormously to the amount the nation spends on hospital, doctor and other health bills. A new study by the Cambridge, Mass., consulting firm of Arthur D. Little, Inc., suggests that they are wrong. Working under a contract from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare's Health Resources Administration, the think-tank researchers reviewed the records of the 1.3 million Americans now covered for catastrophic illness under the Federal Employees Health Benefit Act. They then projected their findings...