Word: jose
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...necessary conditions to participate, with their maximum potential and creative force, in the rational exploitation of our resources." The person put in charge of directing this "sacrifice" was urgently summoned from his hunting camp in Kenya, where he was on safari. He is the new finance minister Jose Martinez de Hoz, known as "Joe" to his friend David Rockefeller. Martinez de Hoz is the son of a wealthy traditional cattle-ranching family with very good credit in foreign banking circles. His comprehensive economic plan includes (1) a free exchange rate; (2) selling state enterprises to private investors; (3) letting prices...
...changes have happened over the years since the Harvard bureaucracy wafted out of Lehman Hall and billowed into Jose Luis Sert's filing cabinet of grey stone across Forbes Plaza. Back in Lehman Hall, recalls R. Jerrold Gibson '51, director of the Office for Fiscal Services, work was a "green eyeshade sort of of thing," copying figures from one sheet of paper to another by hand. Now, when the circulatory system behind Harvard's huge bureaucratic blush thrums more precisely, computeristically, the work is more interesting, Gibson says...
...Jose, Calif...
...Governments, for example, which includes various communities near the District of Columbia, found it could enter into a private pension plan and pay no more than it paid to Social Security, but employees could retire at age 60 instead of 65, with no loss in benefits. In San Jose, Calif., which left the system last year, city workers now contribute 3% less than they did under Social Security and enjoy benefits that average 25% higher...
Performers at the Tabernacle may not have to be totally devout, but behavior must be impeccable. Soprano Roberta Peters inadvertently caused a scandal once when she was served a cup of tea onstage during rehearsal; tea and coffee are forbidden the Mormons. So are alcoholic beverages. Pianist Jose Iturbi narrowly avoided greater disaster when a bottle of Scotch broke on the floor of his Tabernacle dressing room. A kindly janitor cleaned it up, and kept his mouth shut...