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There is a needful move afoot, meanwhile, to revise legis lation covering foreign investments so that such investors would be made to identify themselves more clearly than they have up to now. This would certainly be helpful in establishing whether or not OPEC investors were acting as individuals, or as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The U.S. Should Soak Up That Shower of Gold | 12/16/1974 | See Source »

A wall-forcer of no mean prowess, Anderson backed off long enough to reveal his inner doubts: "Tough though his hide gets to be, the investigative reporter is as emotionally needful of emphatic response as a clown or an actor."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Anderson the Thinker | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

I realize that, in line with these suggestions, one could go further. Logically, perhaps one should. That is where my own hesitations on the "how far can we go" matter come in. Why not scuttle the sixteen-course requirement as well and leave every man's education up to him...

Author: By Philip Stewart, | Title: Harvard Without Concentrations? | 1/6/1970 | See Source »

For there is something missing in all our lives, and there is something radically wrong with us as a country. Thus far we have peered somewhat foolishly at America through the positivist telescope that Marx built a century ago rather than analyzing ourselves in a softer, less "scientific" manner. We...

Author: By Hal Eskesen, | Title: The Spirit of American History | 3/26/1969 | See Source »

Sir: Apropos of "New Punctuation Mark" [July 21]: no doubt the interabang fills the need of some writers, although I can usually make do with a simple exclamation point. More needful, I think, is the pronequark. The kind of sentence that demands the pronequark arises quite frequently. It looks like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 28, 1967 | 7/28/1967 | See Source »

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