Word: investable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the new papers lack manpower and money. Relatively few moderate and conservative students seem willing to invest the time necessary to publish a college newspaper; and most college towns provide scarcely enough advertising to support one student paper, let alone two. Moreover, some of the conservative publications are as invective-filled as any radical paper. For example, Ergo, one of M.I.T.'s new publications, recently called the school's antiwar-research demonstrators "neo-Nazis" and "syndicalist swine." Still, the new opposition press is getting results. Says Crimson President James Fallows: "It's unhealthy...
...kept on telling me how hard he had to work to keep all the accounts in order but it was fun-he was accomplishing something. "I want to make my money myself, not just let someone invest it for me." No, he didn't want to stay in entertainment all his life. The people are fun and it's okay while you're young, but it isn't suited to a serious businessman's mentality: he thought in terms of receipts, not glamor...
...face of such widespread price increases, businessmen are continuing to boost their capital spending budgets, figuring that they had better invest before prices go up still more. During this year's third quarter, according to the National Industrial Conference Board, capital budgets of the nation's 1,000 largest manufacturers went up at an annual rate of 3.7%. That was not as big a rise as the 13% increase in the second quarter, but a rise nonetheless. Before businessmen bet less, the Administration will have to show them more convincing evidence that they are going to lose...
...company's salesmen stay together and play together. A team of them often converges on a town and spends the whole week blanketing it. On weekends, salesmen and their families are expected to invest their leisure time in the company of local managers...
...problem in carrying out the new "Pauline policy" is how to keep the Vatican's income high while rearranging its portfolio. Accordingly, financial men expect the church to invest more funds outside Italy than it has in the past. By adopting a low domestic profile as a capitalist, the Pope hopes in time to erase the "Vatican satellite" image from Italian companies...