Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other issues have nothing to do with ROTC. The rents charged for University-owned apartments are below those of the general market. At the moment indeed they are not sufficient to prevent this part of the University's endowment from being a drain on other funds needed to support Faculty, student aids an doher educational activity. There are no plans to tear down any apartments on University Road nor are any homes being torn down to make way for Harvard Medical School expansion...
...University expansion unless all housing destroyed by such expansion is replaced by similar housing at the same cost, and unless the University offsets the impact of such expansion on the overall housing market...
...main streets, peering into shop windows that displayed jewelry, clothes and other products during an "Israeli Week." Trade between the two nations is certain to go up much farther, according to officials of both. Partly because of a 40% tariff cut on citrus, just granted by the Common Market, Germany could possibly overtake Britain as Israel's second best customer in a few years...
...signed a conditional agreement to acquire Ace Industrial Holdings, an amusement-machine manufacturer that earned $1,400,000 before taxes in 1968. Last year, spurred by acquisitions, Clubman's revenues leaped from $1,100,000 to $37 million, while profits reached $1,300,000. On the London market, its shares rose by 358% last year, making Clubman's Britain's second fastest growth stock (after Bolton Textile Mill Co., a firm that manufactures paper underpants). The joint holdings of Whitfield and Tanner stand close to $12 million...
Another writer might be resentful of the past. But Vonnegut holds no grudges. He is, in general, a man more rueful than wrathful. Black-humorist contemporaries often vibrate with a febrile, apocalyptic rage, seeming to feel that America has the market cornered on greed and hypocrisy. Vonnegut takes a longer view. Though he has an old-fashioned Populist's distrust of the rich and powerful manipulators of society, Vonnegut's is closer kin to Twain than Kafka. Deeply pessimistic about the world, he is rarely depressed by it. Part of him, at least, would contemplate even the story...