Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many students are wondering whether Harvard can be truly a "free market for ideas" while so many of the ideas in vogue on campus are the by-products of government and private grants for research and analysis. It is difficult to say whether this attitude is a bitter reaction to the war or symbolic of a far deeper malaise and concern over the position of a University in modern American society...
...train for everybody. An increasing amount of time is being lost in strikes-most recently in the auto, steel-hauling and copper industries. Unemployment is down to 4.1%, from 7% at the beginning of the upsurge, but it has risen in the past year. On Wall Street, the stock market took a toboggan ride last week, with the Dow-Jones industrial average plummeting 31.56 points to a five-month low of 856.62. Though price increases had been held to 1.3% a year for nearly five years, they have averaged more than 3% for the past two years and inflation...
...erosion, as illustrated last week by the loss of two historically safe Labor seats in three by-elections. His Foreign Secretary, George Brown, has proved a recurring source of embarrassment, as he did again by rudely accusing Sunday Times Publisher Lord Thomson of "great disservice to the country." Common Market entry seems as distant as ever; Charles de Gaulle has just hinted that he will veto Britain once more. No wonder Wilson was looking for a political diversion. Last week he found it in a surprising place: the House of Lords. In the Queen's Speech opening Parliament...
...rest of the industry awoke to the advantages of big-scale operation, he snapped up 18 other associations to form, almost overnight, the first major S. & L. chain. By offering to split profits with cash-shy builders, he soon grabbed a commanding share of the Southern California home-loan market...
Ahmanson's sense of financial timing was honed early. The Omaha-born son of the owner of a small insurance company, he began dabbling in the stock market in his teens, ran up his $20,000 grubstake by age 18. He moved west after his father's death, started selling fire insurance, and soon hit upon the idea of concentrating on the low-risk residential side of that business, especially on foreclosed properties (which in those days required a new policy). Thus the Depression made him rich. "I felt like an undertaker," Ahmanson once remarked. 'The worse...