Word: lest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expresses an individualism which tends toward the iconoclastic, and he often finds well worn thought a fit subject for mockery. Studying history because it offers a means of enlarging one's experience, he feels, in the tradition of Jamesian pragmatism, that it can lead to hypotheses for action. But, lest he sound as pretentious as some of the thinkers whom he enjoys debunking in his course, Mr. Fleming quickly adds, "To be frank, I study history for the hell of it. Some people enjoy playing the violin. I play history...
...Lines. Most European businesses began in family secrecy, and as they grew bigger still kept a family attitude toward such outsiders as shareholders and the public. Especially in France and Italy, fear of the tax collector is so obsessive that businessmen avoid even being photographed lest they come to the collector's notice. There is also a belief that dis closure of profits only encourages unions to ask for more money. Officers of European firms make themselves and their plants as inaccessible as possible. France's tiremaking Michelin, perhaps the world's most secretive company, boasts that...
...lest we forget, there are the South Vietnamese masses. On their behalf, it may not be too rash to assume that they desire and deserve something better than the right to trade one tyrant for another, a privilege the sponsors of the letter seem to confer upon them implicitly...
...Process. Aluminium uses its selling power deftly abroad, lest it court higher tariffs. Instead of pushing aggressively, its smoothly multilingual salesmen overseas seek to sell ingots to local fabricators-which are often Aluminium subsidiaries with local shareholders, directors and managers. "We can't run our foreign operating companies from Montreal," says President Davis, who jets around the world two or three times a year to help stitch together the loose empire...
...better be about cripples of some kind. Its themes run the full gamut of human feeling-from misery to self-pity to despair. When these subtleties have been achieved, the song ought to be recorded by someone who sings no better than any other kid on the block, lest the record lose the "dumb sound" the industry values as a cinch to win rapport with the girls...