Word: interests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Band program will include: three Souza Marches, the Dartmouth, Princeton, and Yale Medleys, Milhand's "Suite Francais," the "Military Suite" in E flat by Gustav Holst, the March from "Opus 99" by Sergei Prokofleff, and "Pavaue" by Morton Gould, Of special interest will be "Radcliffiana," a musical sketch of the Annex arranged by Leroy Anderson...
Although his corporate connections not him what one colleague terms "a large income," Dean David earnestly insists that these are completely subsidiary" to the underlying interest in education which returned him to Cambridge. Central features in the School's program--the famed case system for one--depend on the support of business leaders. He calls his own business activities psychologically crucial in winning tycoon response...
While the question of a Security Council-sponsored police force has been raised in the U.N. many times, the motion has always stalled on the two-headed, green-eyed problem of sovereignty and national interest. Palestine security posed the very same problems that have always sapped the United Nations of its intended strength. The U.S. didn't want to offend, any more than possible, the wealthy owners of Arabian oil lands; any concentration of Russian troops in the Middle East seemed strategically unwise; and small nations refused to sacrifice their tiny armies to the cause of international police. The stakes...
...vapor (attractive to cockroaches) behind a gas-tight window of material transparent to infrared. The cockroaches responded to it just about as strongly as if the barrier were not there. When a thin sheet of glass (opaque to infrared) was added to the barrier, the cockroaches showed no more interest in the window than when there was no oil of cloves behind...
...York Stock Exchange voted down a plan to permit partnerships to incorporate. The plan would have allowed them to take advantage of lower corporate taxes, and get new capital more easily. Despite Exchange President Emil Schram's endorsement of the plan as "certainly in the public interest," Exchange members voted against it by more than two to one because they feared, among other things, that corporations would make it harder for small partnerships and individual members to compete...