Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...increasing patient respect and confidence in the physician. The fact that more physicians have not been produced by the medical schools is not because of A.M.A. obstructionism but because of the inability of private schools to finance additions to their facilities at an estimated cost of $80,000 per student. It has only been in recent years, with the all too late entrance of the Federal Government, that the schools have been able to significantly expand...
...November, two James II tankards, delicately chased with drawings of posturing Chinese potentates, fetched $134,400 at Christie's in London. Since the tankards had last changed hands in 1963 at a price of $47,600, mathematicians calculated that they had been appreciating at a rate of $1.80 per hour...
David learned his undeferential ways first as editor of Isis, the student magazine at Oxford, then as an interviewer for the BBC in the provinces. Sometimes he would carry two microphones to cover for radio and telly simultaneously-and to increase his fee to $22 per assignment. He later worked on network-wide documentaries and panel shows in London and spent a year as a CBS correspondent. His credits include a film report from Albania and an uneven essay on the "vulgarity" of Texas. In a preview of the sort of sharp commentary he delivered last week, he described Texas...
After Gulf & Western was blocked by the Justice Department from taking over Armour & Co., Charlie Bluhdorn attempted to resell his 750,000 shares to the meat packer for about $60 per share. He thought he had a deal?and an $18 million profit?but Armour Chairman William Wood Prince tried a squeeze play to drive the price down to $50. His method was ingenious. Armour made a public offer to repurchase 20% of its own outstanding shares at $50 each. If successful, the move would have increased Bluhdorn's stake in Armour from 9.8% to 12½%, thus making Gulf & Western...
Supertechies of the 40-60 hours per week variety sometimes go through this kind of withdrawal after a year or two or three of tech overdoes. They're seldom academically inclined to begin with, and can hide form academics enough to almost flunk out, or end up on probation...