Word: offere
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turning point in history in which old ways of doing things are breaking up. Perhaps we are experiencing shattering fundamental changes the significance of which cannot yet be even dimly discerned. Some would like to have us believe this; but such explanations seem to me overdramatic. Nevertheless, unable to offer a better reason, I must at least concede the possibility that our colleges and universities are only among the first of institutions to be shaken by an all-encompassing sea-change now occurring around the world. Though I hope...
...whites and non-whites, the Faculty of Medicine last year voted to undertake a nationwide search to find more well-prepared black students. They also resolved to help them, when found, to make up academic as well as financial deficiencies, and are now seeking arrangements with the Colege to offer courses for those who will need additional preparation. They hope to enroll at least 15 additional students from disadvantaged backgrounds in each class beginning next autumn...
...said that they were isolated from real life and denied a big enough voice in curriculum planning and school discipline. Teachers and headmasters, they said, made a point of minimizing racial and cultural differences; and in the process they squander one of the greatest advantages that independent schools can offer. Removed from the tensions of the city, white student and black, Jew and gentile, could learn to live together while respecting and learning from each other's heritage. At Mount Hermon, for example, where 50% of the students receive some financial aid, minority groups of all sorts are unusually...
...soaring cost of borrowing, which hit consumers two weeks ago when the interest rate on FHA and VA mortgages jumped from 61% to a record 71%, forced the Government itself to pay a stiff price for money. To refinance some $14 billion of federal debt, the Treasury had to offer 61% interest on 15-month notes and 61% interest on seven-year notes, the highest rates on such gilt-edged securities since...
...National General, voting itself the fat dividend looked like a smart move. The company waged a bitter proxy fight to get its 75%, and has offered to buy the remaining 25% at $45 per share. Before the offer was made, the stock had been selling for about half that amount. Great American certainly looked ripe for plucking. It had been losing money on insurance for at least a decade, mainly because it concentrated on personal fire and casualty policies, a competitive area plagued by rising losses. Like many other hard-pressed insurance concerns, Great American concentrated on making profits...