Word: objectness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crooned Frank Sinatra in the late 1960s. Now, since his semiretirement from show biz, his business rivals are learning that he really meant what he sang. The latest object of Sinatra's approach: the Del E. Webb Corp., a $340 million-a-year Phoenix-based company that was founded by the late Del Webb, the renowned builder and former part-owner of the New York Yankees, who died in 1974. Late last month Sinatra filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a 14B form, which is the customary prelude to a proxy war. Bracing for the onslaught...
...capital that relishes surprises, the official announcement of Press's appointment was anticlimactic. The M.I.T. professor has actually been ensconced in the Executive Office Building since mid-February, attending meetings next door at the White House and even testifying before House and Senate committees. Though some Congressmen occasionally object to taking testimony from unconfirmed appointees, none has balked at listening to Press. Explains one Congresswoman simply: "He knows what he's talking about...
...River, it also gets part of its supply from the sea. Israeli desalination plants now desalt 3 million cubic meters (7.8 billion gal.) of sea water every year. The cost is high ($1 per cubic meter), but the Israelis have little choice. In Saudi Arabia, where cost is no object, the government has embarked on a $12 billion program that will enable it to desalt 2.3 billion liters (600 million gal.) a day by 1980. Oil-rich Kuwait already gets almost all of its water by desalination...
...whether "the Sabbath is made for man," but who also swings a heavy club to smash the money-changers' booths in the Temple. Olivia Hussey, who at age 15 played Juliet for Zeffirelli, is a winsomely girlish Virgin Mary who suffers real labor pains and is the object of respect, though not veneration, during Jesus' lifetime...
Star said the trustees primarily object to the inconsistent unionization policies of the American Association of University Professors. He said that the union insisted on excluding medical school personnel from its membership at B.U. while it insisted on including them at other universities. There is "a considerable amount of inconsistency in their policies," he added...