Word: quicked
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...looked at in the context of a nation wide trend, Harvard's divestment would be a drop in the bucket, but no one would disagree that once you have a whole lot of drops in the bucket, it tips over," says Ball. "Neither are we calling for a quick fix, a cure-all for Apartheid that will alone cause a transferral of South Africa overnight. What we are saying is that Harvard can't shirk its responsibilitity to play a part along with individual church groups, states, and voters who are also awakening to responsibilities...
Whenever business executives get together these days, the talk quickly turns to the strong dollar. Says Peter Peterson, former chairman of Wall Street's Lehman Bros. and Commerce Secretary during the Nixon Administration: "I am on five company boards, and on four of them there is much more discussion about the dollar than ever before." Peterson, who was a guest at the meeting of TIME's Board of Economists, called for quick action to stop the rise of the dollar and help American exporters. His program...
Boston residents have their own theories on why Bean Town jumped from 18th to second place. Harvard Social Scientist David Riesman (The Lonely Crowd) thinks that media exposure helped. Doug Flutie, the former Boston College quarterback, he notes, "is quick, brainy and made it on countless telecasts." John Updike, who lives in the exclusive suburb of Beverly Farms, cites the economic factor. "When I came to Harvard in the '50s, Boston was fairly grubby," says the novelist. "Now if you have the money, it's a nice place to live...
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Disney refuses to disclose the annual number of injuries at the California and Florida parks, which draw more than 30 million visitors a year, but there is little doubt that thousands occur. The majority never result in suits at all, thanks to quick soothing from Disney. Says Mike McCray, Disneyland's lawyer since 1955: "If people get wet, we've got clothes dryers, and we dry them off. Before they know it, they're back out there having...