Word: interests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...estrangement between students and faculty "Excellence of teaching is not possible unless the teacher believes that the process by which he teaches is sound. We believe that the same must be true about learning." The same is true about learning. The Committee--a group of men with a vested interest in the system which has allowed them climb to the top of the ladder in legal education and in many cases in government--have trouble conceiving of the students' discontent except in terms of their own problems...
...changes in factory output and personal income, which are measured among the so-called "coincident" indicators. Reaction is already evident in retail sales, which also turned down sharply in March. Eventually, the effects will ripple through the economy as rises or declines in the "lagging" indicators, among them bank interest rates, labor costs and prices...
...revolt was sparked by fear among investors that Montedison was on the verge of "hidden nationalization." The two biggest government industrial enterprises-ENI and I.R.I.-recently acquired a near-controlling interest in Montedison, a diversified manufacturer of chemicals and other basic products (TIME, Oct. 18). Now they were proposing a rule change that would give government forces virtual veto power in the Montedison board. Enraged, more than 2,000 small stockholders turned up at the meeting, the largest such group ever to so gather in Italy...
...Prince's Armour. Secretly manipulating his pawns on Wall Street, Bluhdorn acquired almost 10% of Armour before Billy could blink. In the nick of time, an ally, the Trustbusters, came to Billy's rescue and went after Bluhdorn with mace and chain. Bluhdorn wisely sold his interest in Armour to another power, General Host, whose ruler, iron-willed Richard Pistell, also coveted Prince's realm. Pistell offered Billy's shareholders a chance to trade Armour stock...
...single kingdom-Bach to the Beatles, Henry James to Bergman-but perceived and firmly insisted (in the chapter "What's Happening in America-1966") that politics cannot be discussed outside the cultural context in which they occur. This last is essentially a European concept, and her interest in European culture has lent substance to her views in other ways. She has helped sponsor on this side of the Atlantic such distinguished but previously little-known European contemporaries as Rumanian Philosopher E. M. Cioran and French Anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss...