Word: planning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thought a quick return to the hotel would be the safest plan, but I hadn't reckoned with redneck wilyness. As I neared the black part of Meridian, I realized that a pick-up truck was following me. Not thinking too well, I decided that the best thing to do would be to get out of town--I hadn't left anything in the hotel, and maybe my renunciation of BF Young would convince potential rednecks I was harmless...
...history student in West Germany. "If there is any chance of winning this battle, I want to go back and help build humanist socialism. But if there is no chance of winning, how can I go back to face intellectual-and maybe even physical-death?" The answer is to plan their lives, in the phrase they often use, "for the time being." But barring a total clamp down on personal liberties, most plan to return eventually, particularly the intellectuals. "None of us has the right to do what we did, then leave when things blow up in our faces," says...
This week, most of his groundwork completed, McNamara broke his silence. The occasion was the 23rd annual meeting, in Washington, of the board of governors who represent the bank's 110 member nations. Delivering the keynote speech, McNamara outlined one of the most ambitious plans for overseas development since George Marshall delivered his Marshall Plan speech at Harvard in 1947. Not only does McNamara want to double the bank's lending capacity, but he also intends to spread the loans in new directions. More should go, he said, to projects that directly benefit ordinary people in poorer nations...
...Vague. While both companies' boards and stockholders have yet to approve the plan, however, it clearly made sense to Xerox President C. Peter McColough and C.I.T. Chairman L. Walter Lundell, the men who shook hands on the deal. As primarily a leaser rather than a seller of machines, Xerox needs constant access to borrowed capital, which C.I.T. now handles in sums that total up to $2 billion at any given time. Xerox has been in the market for merger partners or acquisitions for several years, ever since former President Joseph Wilson decided that "our future depends on what...
Galamison proposed that the teachers be given "one year fellowships in urban education at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education." He said that the Ford Foundation had expressed interest in the idea, but had not promised to pay for the fellowships. Galamison introduced the plan at a meeting of the New York school board, the local board, and the teachers 'union...