Word: itt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Well-managed schools net 7% to 10% of annual revenues-a fact not lost on American businessmen. In recent years, such corporate giants as CBS, Bell & Howell and ITT have eagerly bought up schools. But the most interesting effect of the proprietary schools may be their influence on the hard-pressed colleges, which see increasing merit in the schools' cost-conscious approach-full-time teachers (up to 25 hours a week instead of ten), rented buildings and leased equipment instead of handsome campuses, no summer vacations and no frills. As one proprietary-school administrator puts...
...same kind of discontent and desire for change that Alabama Governor George Wallace so bitingly articulated but did not satisfy. Thus, a basic thrust of the McGovern campaign will be to portray Nixon as the champion of bigness-citing, for example, the Administration's coziness with ITT officials-and as the most prominent representative of a political system that voters want to change. With the Administration depicted as deceptive, secretive and unwilling to "level with the people," the McGovern advisers feel that their man, who speaks both bluntly and softly, will provide an effective contrast in character and style...
Today the Los Angeles-based company, under 39-year-old Chairman Broad (rhymes with road), is the nation's second largest home builder, behind ITT Levitt. In the last five years, K. & B. sales jumped by a phenomenal average of 50% annually, to last year's $225 million. Last week the company reported that, partly as a result of acquisitions, after-tax profits in the year's first half jumped...
...party has already weathered one unforeseen development this year: under the shadow of the ITT affair and amid troubles with local convention facilities, the Republicans switched the convention site from San Diego, the city the President had personally picked. Everything else is well in hand at this point, however, and Richard Nixon, having brushed off the challenges of Liberal Paul (Pete) McCloskey Jr. and Conservative John Ashbrook, will come to Florida in firm control of a united party, assured that no major surprises await...
...Democrats into Miami Beach's modernistic Convention Hall. A state senator from Wisconsin, Knowles, 56, carried the major burden of making up for the seven weeks the Republicans lost in their convention preparations when they had to switch location from California to Florida in the wake of the ITT brouhaha...