Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JOHN FERMIN, 32, a former Army PFC, lost a leg during his five months in Viet Nam. He is now recuperating from a liver operation in Manhattan's VA hospital: "I don't think we had any right over there. I don't mind helping the people, but they should have fought the war themselves. But I figured that if we were there to fight, we should fight to win. We got into it halfway and I came home with half a leg. America is a powerful country. She stands for human rights. She's ashamed...
...argument, except the one about communicable diseases, which inspection shows them not to have. They include those who bribed their way out; those who made quick marriages-as well as those who mastered English and technical knowledge and worked for IBM or the Department of Defense or Chase Manhattan; those who are trained doctors or pharmacists; those who out of religious belief or political conviction made themselves early enemies of the new regime; those whose service in the Vietnamese army or government or whose working for the U.S. guaranteed their arrest, their "re-education," or in some cases their death...
...sooner rather than later. "I think honestly that it's going to turn around in this quarter," says Joseph B. Lanterman, chairman of Amsted Industries. Says Lee lacocca, president of Ford Motor Co.: "The worst is behind us." Richard Everett, chief domestic economist of the Chase Manhattan Bank, proclaims himself "confident that the recession will be ended by summer...
...lawmakers, will be submitted for a vote in the legislature probably within 30 days. Steingut claims that he has the votes to get the bill passed in the Assembly and Governor Hugh Carey, a Democrat, would be amenable if public response is favorable. During two days of hearings in Manhattan last week, the committee heard fervent praise for the idea from several speakers, including Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader...
...nearly 40,000 students and is just recovering from a brush with fiscal disaster. In 1972 N.Y.U. faced a $7.9 million deficit, and the trustees had to embark on an austerity drive. They sold the university's second campus, ten miles uptown from the main campus in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, dropped its engineering school, and cut the full-time faculty from 2,200 to 1,965. This year the deficit is down to $3 million, but N.Y.U. still faces the long-term problems of other private universities. Tuition will be $3,300 next fall; yet the school...