Word: intendancy
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...within their ranks that the battle between hard and soft will be won or lost-because contact lenses are dispensed by prescription. While some ophthalmologists and optometrists bridle at the wholesale prices that Bausch & Lomb is charging them-about $100 a pair-others have become zealots. "I intend using the soft lenses on every patient I possibly can," said Dr. Mary Young, who maintains a 3,000-patient-a-year optometrical practice in Braintree, Mass. Until she tried on a pair herself at a Bausch & Lomb seminar last week, she had gone, red-rimmed and bloodshot, through 17 pairs...
...objective account of each alternative; as confidential advisor to the President, his strength would rest more on his personal relationship with Nixon than on his policymaking abilities-a relationship that would have been very difficult to predict. "I suppose what really was clear was that Henry Kissinger did not intend to become a man of particular influence," Thomas Schelling, Kissinger's closest colleague on the Harvard Faculty, said recently. "I think he honestly thought that there was a more detached role for himself." So Kissinger had gone to Washington to whittle down the options and strengthen Nixon's hand...
...become the dollar's crushing burden. Most discussion has centered on a newly created form of money, such as the Special Drawing Rights that the IMF began issuing in 1970 with obviously inadequate effect. There is a more likely candidate: the unified currency that the Common Market nations intend to create, assuming that storms such as last week's crisis do not frustrate their plans. The world needs a second currency that nations could use, along with the dollar, to hold in reserves and settle bills with each other...
Less than a month after letters were mailed out to 1507 successful applicants, the class is full. Twelve hundred fourteen students have told Harvard they intend to come here next fall, according to Pohn P. Reardon Jr. '60. associate dean of Admissions and Financial Aids...
...very difficult to operate around the world with our antitrust laws. We cannot select a foreign partner and say, "We are going to work with you forever." This leads to great difficulty for us because we have to write agreements that are short-term when we really intend them to be longterm. I don't know any other government that makes companies obey not only the laws of the foreign nations where they operate but also certain laws of the home country. We are unique in that...