Word: money
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peaches overhaul the ICC? There is little chance of that. For one thing, the ICC is the only federal agency whose chairmanship is not filled by a long-term White House appointee. Moreover, Peaches is no activist, except for her spirited championing of money-losing rail-passenger service on the grounds that "the public convenience cannot be hamstrung by the tyranny of figures." She and the ICC are hamstrung by a frustratingly fuzzy legal charter that authorizes the agency to prescribe rates, regulate routes and oversee mergers, but prevents it from using individual cases as precedents that could establish overall...
...profit from - the operations of stock-market manipulators by keeping running graphs on the price and volume of trad ing in individual stocks. Today's chart ists have created considerable bafflegab, but they have also devised some simple patterns by which to follow the swings of the smart money (see chart) and watch for new patterns. Among the com mon signs of change...
...July, President Johnson signed the Bank Protection Act, which requires federally insured financial institutions to take at least minimal precautions. The first regulation goes into effect this week, when banks must appoint security officers or risk $100-a-day fines. By 1970, banks must supply tellers with marked "bait" money, keep cash on hand to a "reasonable minimum," and install alarms as well as tamper-proof locks on exterior doors and windows. Banks are also urged to install cameras that take thieves' pictures...
This Friday East House will raffle off seven of its finest as "Valentine treats" to seven lucky men. While this raffle is meant as a cute gimmick to raise money for East House it reflects the reality of male-female relations in the Harvard "community" and in society at large. Is this our functional value--to be merely another raffle item--like a puppy dog or a television set? Or, for that matter, is it the role of men to purchase women as they would any other commodity...
...black people were to raffle themselves off to whites to raise money, such a flagrant reinforcement of their oppression would not be tolerated by anybody. But women, in raffling themselves off to men, are perpetuating their own second class status--and this is accepted by both men, and women. Women are not objects to be bought and sold--even in jest. Donna E. Lieberman '70 of the Committee of Women...