Word: partner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conversation, white leaders cannot help but suggest the kind of things they fear. "We don't like the idea of you people coming in here to destroy the quiet, placid life we all enjoy," one man told my Negro partner and I in the midst of a relatively calm discussion. "What you people don't seem to understand is that the whole thing is really a matter of choice. I don't choose to live in your people's world, and they dont choose to live in mine...
Harvard by no means wants to quit working for the Government, but, says Pusey. "we move into the relationship, on guard and wary, filled with suspicion, ready to be helpful when we can, but at the same time eager to concede nothing to our more powerful partner. We fear that at some future time our new associate may begin to make demands upon us inconsistent with the true character of an independent university. When that time comes-perhaps we should anticipate, when those repeated times come-we wish to be able, and we firmly intend...
Early Chains. As a "monopolist," Newhouse has to give considerable ground to the early U.S. chain builders. Beginning in the 1880s, and teaming with one partner or another, a onetime Rushville, Ill., farm boy named Edward Wyllis Scripps bought or started 52 dailies as well as a news agency (United Press) and various feature syndicates. Hearst, another prodigious newspaper buyer, acquired a total of 42 dailies, also had his own wire service (International News Service), a Sunday supplement (American Weekly), a kit bag of magazines, and even a film company (established mainly to produce star vehicles for his mistress...
...game he had just left to retrieve a forgotten gold pencil. At the table, he fell into conversation with another player, ended up lending him $10,000 to renovate a movie house in Lowell, Mass. The loan eventually expanded into a $200,000 investment in three theaters. When his partner decided to sell out, Sack suddenly found himself in the theater business. "What did I know about theaters?" he asks. "About as much as John Dillinger knew about being Pope...
...Euro-dollars, indeed!" snorts the senior partner of a London banking house. "It's hot money-and I prefer to call it by that name." By whatever name it is called, a new, hybrid medium of exchange is now at work financing trade between the nations of the free world...