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Overseas, the Northrop revelations were greeted largely by an everybody-does-it yawn. Said one French official: "That American false puritanism makes Americans really think everything is pure in business. Clearly, oil, arms, electronics and telecommunications deals are usually fertilized a bit." The use of agents and consultants is not peculiar to Northrop. Khashoggi has represented Lockheed, Raytheon and Chrysler, and General Stehlin is still listed by Hughes Aircraft as a consultant...
...sudden death in 1973, American Choreographer Glen Tetley was appointed his successor. An iconoclast of the dance, Tetley, 49, raises conservative eyebrows high with his infusion of modern dance idioms into ballet. Again, unlike Cranko, he has always been known for relatively small dance pieces that concentrate on pure movement. He had never created an evening's length ballet. Some doubted that he ever could...
...considerations of merit in the hiring process. The goals system--which requires employers to file with the government numerical expectations of how well they think they will fare in increasing their minority and female representation--has drawn particular criticism from academics who see it as an abrogation of the pure scholarly values that should prevail in a university...
...alumni can donate profitable stocks to Harvard and use the profits as tax write-offs because they are gifts to a non-profit institutions. When the market is down, however, as it was most of this year, people who give stocks to the Fund are doing so on a pure loss basis...
While DuBois had an instinctive reaction against the lily-white composition of Harvard, the distinguished academic community seems to have appealed to him. In his autobiography, Dusk of Dawn, he recalled with fondness discussions of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason with George Santayana, and invitations to the house of William James, a personal friend...