Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Analysts are most concerned about a stock's price-earnings ratio-that is, its price relative to earnings per share expected in the current year. Professionals tend to assign rather low P-E ratios to companies with profits that are rising only as fast as the U.S. economy's gross national product. Thus, the Dow-Jones industrials now have P-E ratios averaging less than 17 to 1, down from 21 to 1 just before the 1962 market break. Analysts give much more generous P-Es-50 to 1, or more-to companies with profits that rise faster...
...growth in the Peace Corps, for any economist will note that 14,000 Volunteers will hardly scratch the surface of the problems between present and peace. One thousand Volunteers in India are too few for final solutions; therefore they aim at "confrontation rather than solution." Yet on a proportionate per capita basis, Botswana would merit only two Volunteers rather than the eighty British and American Volunteers it now requests and uses. Thus a concern for growth is a function of a quest for impact: if peace is at issue, impact is imperative...
...creating "an extraordinarily vibrant community life." Exhibiting his fondness for numbers, he goes on to note that 800 students performed in various plays, that 2000 undergraduates earned $826,000 in term-time employment, that 1000 participated in service programs, that 60 ("three score") seniors won honorary fellowships, and 69 per cent graduated with honors. He devotes considerable attention to the academic achievement of Harvard athletes (seventy-nine lettermen received honors; eight team captains received cum laude degrees and four got magnas...
...middle-of-the-road acquiescence of all but a handful of his students remain unshaken. When he undertook to insult students who believe American society is rotten and are in need of redemption, Pusey did not realize how many students see themselves as fitting this description. Ninety-four per cent of the senior class opposes the war, according to the recent CRIMSON Poll, and nearly a quarter stand ready to defy the laws of their country in protest of that war. Three hundred students took part in the Dow protest, and additional hundreds turned in cards to support that action...
...center of the University, and students are what the College is all about. The depth of misperception shown in Pusey's remarks reveal a need for re-ordering priorities at Massachusetts Hall. The President could greatly expand his contact with undergraduates by eating one lunch and one dinner per week in a College dining hall. Moreover, he could seize the initiative for student contact at appropriate times. For example, when SDS challenged him to debate University complicity in the Vietnam War, Pusey apparently looked upon this as an affront to the dignity of his office. Had he instead accepted...