Word: parents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most important factors are sociological--the social class of each student, and the social class of his fellow students. Crippled by low parent education and lack of stimulus, students of low socio-economic background must fight extra hard to overcome home influences. But progress becomes almost impossible when fellow-students come from the same backgrounds, and suffer the same handicaps. Lacking examples of ambition or achievement, the class gels into a self-retarding mass...
...find myself, as the parent of a Harvard undergraduate, the recipient of your singular form letter of November 3, circulated in your capacity as Senior Tutor of Adams House. You begin: "I enclose for your information a copy of a letter that I have just sent to your son. I regret the sternness of its tone." I do not care one way or the other about your tone: be as stern as your conception of yourself requires. I am struck, however, by the quite insufferable insensitivity and stuffiness of your letter. I do regret the sense of moral superiority that...
Luxembourg law allows a foreign company incorporated there to transfer freely any funds under its control to its parent company, without any public disclosure. Dividends, too, can be paid to bondholders anywhere, free of withholding tax. Setting up a holding company in Luxembourg with easy access to the local stock exchange costs a trifle-less than 1% of the initial capital-and takes only a few days. Even with a 0.16% annual tax on their nominal capital, companies find the deal far better than similar arrangements elsewhere in Western Europe...
...passed, despite angry protests from Fitzgerald and Hayes. Olesen listened to their attacks slumped in his chair with his head in his hands and his eyes closed. "I'm not a candidate for the School Committee," he said revealingly, defending the motion; "tonight I speak as a parent and my only interest is the best education for my children...
...never seems to have understood the status of the intellectual in British public life. The Establishment has always maintained a sort of marsupial arrangement with members of the intelligentsia. From his well-padded pouch, the infant marsupial may complain about the accommodation and the direction the parent in power may be taking, but that is about...