Word: interests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...read with great interest the startling discovery of the June graduates [June 13] that the world contains war, poverty, disease and hatred between races, and thus is not a fit receptacle for either them or Miss Mills' prospective babies. We are all much indebted to them for their shrewd observations and also for their forthright response to this situation -sulking, whining to their parents and destroying their universities...
...more concerned about profits than protests. The three "unions" to which most of Finland's 45,000 university students belong are among the country's biggest business enterprises. Using membership dues and bank loans, the students have bought a driving school, bookstores, a book publishing company, majority interest in a fertilizer plant, and a 25% share in Amer-Tupakka, a cigarette manufacturer that has annual sales of $11 million. The bulk of the unions' annual income of $7,500,000 comes from their real estate, worth at least $25 million. It consists mainly of dormitories, which...
...selling space into small shops devoted to Courreges and other designers. He has not tampered with amenities like the gold-and-marble ladies' room, which makes the San Francisco store something of a tourist attraction and is duplicated in all Magnin's stores. Rival retailers take more interest in Magnin's 24-carat charge accounts, some of which run to $30,000 a month...
...Mosley carries his argument: that history provided moments of decision, and most of the choices were flubbed-out of stupidity, cowardice and petty self-interest. Churchill's words after Munich today read flamboyant but true: "The government had to choose between shame and war. They chose shame and they will get war." Curiously, Hitler once pointed to the same moral-that one's character finally becomes one's destiny. When he discovered how formidable the Czech bunkers might have proved, he said: "What does it matter how strong the concrete is so long as the will...
Mosley is careful not to say that World War II could have been avoided. He is also cautious about suggesting alternative lines of action. His scenario is not what should have been done but what was done. His interest is to show that generally it was deplorable...