Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...origin or significance, any memories of similar experiences. By this act of epoche, a deliberate suspension of judgment, Husserl felt that the mind could eventually intuit the essence of the object being studied. Husserl's bafflingly difficult approach influenced such modern existentialist philosophers as Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre...
Biggest Ever. He did not, it seems, devote all his hours to metallurgy. Last week agents of the Brigade des Stupe-fiants-France's counterpart of the U.S. Narcotics Bureau-showed up at Desist's 14-room home at Saint-Jean-leBlanc and arrested him in connection with smuggling 209 Ibs. of pure heroin into the U.S. The narcotics, worth $2,800,000 wholesale and as much as $100 million retail (after cutting and diluting), had been found in a shack at a Columbus, Ga., trailer court. It was the biggest single haul of heroin ever captured...
Besides Desist, seven other men and women were arrested, including Chief Warrant Officer Herman Conder, 35, who was recently transferred from Orléans to Fort Benning, Ga.; Frankie Dio, 48, operator of a Miami Beach nightclub and younger brother of Brooklyn Mobster Johnny Dio; and Jean Nebbia, 52, and Jean-Claude Le Franc, 50, both leading figures in France's Mafia-backed dope-smuggling fraternity...
...called the "invisible hand," which brought all forces into balance and used them fully. Smith argued, for example, that if wages rose too fast, employers would lay off so many workers that wages would fall until they reached the point at which employers would start rehiring. French Economist Jean Baptiste Say embroidered that idea by theorizing that production always creates just enough income to consume whatever it produces, thus permitting any excesses of demand to correct themselves quickly...
...Bills, Bigger Profit. Successful bartering requires shrewd contacts and lightning communications. The largest, oldest and best-known barterer is Lausanne's Andre & Co., an 88-year-old firm that last year handled transactions worth $1 billion. Brothers Georges and Jean Andre have 5,000 worldwide agents, a fleet of 15 freighters, leased telex lines to North and South America and, reputedly, Switzerland's largest telephone bill. Bartering has particularly profited from increased East-West trade because Comecon nations like to do at least part of their dealing in merchandise. In their latest transaction, the Andre brothers shipped diesel...