Word: longterm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attractive year by year. The share of the savings dollar used to purchase life insurance has dwindled steadily from 51% in 1945 to less than 15% today. Conservative management and restrictive federal and state regulations have kept most of the insurers' $240 billion in assets tied up in longterm, low-return investments, such as top-quality mortgages and gilt-edge bonds...
...make a revolution that way." Schoenman's own revolutionary recipe centers on the "white working class" whom, he says, "bear the brunt or corporate capitalism." In a cold tone, he advises the radicals to continue demonstrations to gain mass support, foresake the "moral witnessing" of draft resistance, and begin longterm organization...
Assuredly, Chandler doesn't plan to be another Invisible Man. And on being asked what his longterm ambition is, without an instant's hesitation he shot back the proper answer: "To be the best black artist America has ever seen...
...meetings, sponsored by the Harvard Policy Committee, initiated a longterm student study of the University called the Harvard Education Project (HEP). The participants included the HPC president Henry, R. Norr '68, five of the 14 new HPC members, five tutors, and three newly-elected SFAC representatives...
Shulman condemns most conventional, long-term investments and tempts his readers to speculate. "Unfortunately," he says, "longterm is not too important to us because we humans are short-term." He repeats the obvious: the key to quick gain is to use leverage-to multiply, as much as twentyfold, the purchasing power of each investment dollar. He speculates in the commodities market because it offers 1) wide price swings and 2) minuscule margins-the buyer puts down as little as 5% and borrows the rest...