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...nation so full of people shouting "Give a damn" and "full commitment" can accept this so calmly. I suggest that the American people start to give a damn about those men doing so for them, to the last full measure. Shape up, America, and mourn your dead. You owe them that, and so much, much more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 9, 1969 | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...DOES ALL this apply to Harvard? It would be silly to argue that the abolition of grades and exams at Harvard would have enormous effects on the behavior and attitudes of the people here. Harvard students owe their presence here to their singular success in adapting themselves to the values of the American school system, and it would be naive to expect them to change in any fundamental way after they arrive...

Author: By David I. Bruck, | Title: A Proposal Concerning Exams | 4/28/1969 | See Source »

...think we owe due recognition to the strength of moral convictions and courage of those students participating in the demonstration. They could into question the morality of the decision-making process of this Administration. The tactics employed by the Administration in ending the occupation were a clear indication of the brutal and insensible use of power upon which that morality is founded. In a WBZ-TV interview April 10, Mayor Sullivan of Cambridge stated, in response to a question as to what restraints the Administration put on police it called together, that the Administration did not place any restrictions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Afro-American Studies-What's Going On Here? | 4/21/1969 | See Source »

...corporate enterprise. There are dozens of legal ways in which companies can juggle their books to inflate profits. The most common objectives are to camouflage a poor earnings performance, to help lift the price of common stock, and to promote-or fend off-mergers. Many conglomerate corporations owe their recent ascendancy at least in part to such practices. The trend has spread confusion among security analysts and investors; it has fired acrimonious debate among businessmen and accountants; it has provoked concern among regulatory authorities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: COOKING THE BOOKS TO FATTEN PROFITS | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

...been "an out-and-out memory course." Ike later wrote: "It took years before I fully realized the value of what [Conner] had led me through. In a lifetime of association with great and good men, he is the one more or less invisible figure to whom I owe an incalculable debt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: EISENHOWER: SOLDIER OF PEACE | 4/4/1969 | See Source »

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