Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seattle is a city that works-rand works very well -largely because it has a cadre of civic-minded businessmen who have become a kind of separate branch of government, willing to devote time and talent to improving the culture and commonweal. When one of these leaders has an idea...
ALTHOUGH many of his ideas are absurd, they are all interesting. For instance, Toffler prefaced his stormy-weather warnings by questioning the validity of science and knowledge as our society conceives it. The modern notion of causality, Toffler proferred, may be nothing more than an unprovable idea that would quite...
Then the hype was on. One day a year of Christmas was not enough for the growth-minded executives in the upper echelons of The Santa Corporation. As Amalgamated Widget, they had used the company's formidable promotional muscle to expand July Fourth Weekend into July Fourth Week in order...
The ACSR, now entering its sixth year of existence, is incredibly biased in its composition. Composed of equal numbers of alumni, faculty and students, the administration generally selects financiers and corporate executives as the committee's alumni members, and faculty members who teach business, corporate law and managerial economics. Thus...
McPhee brushes off suggestions that such dedication is exemplary. "I've got discipline because I've got nowhere else to go," he says. "I elected to be a writer, and now that I'm 46 it is simply what I do." In his work habits and careful...