Word: quirks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Today's Harvard-Northeastern cross country meet at Franklin Park isn't likely to be one of the season's big races, but there may be an interesting individual battle between sophomores Tony Frontierro of Northeastern and the Crimson's John Quirk...
...nine are sophomores from last year's best-ever freshman team. Even though they ran a shorter distance as freshman, they have been exceptional in camp. The four most promising sophomores at this point are John Quirk, Marshall Jones. George Barker...
...also a voyage inward to the realm of the unconscious where identities merge into the one-ness of universal being and so forth. But the fiction, the unconscious, dominates over the science. Physical laws are bent to mental demands. An author's cavalier appropriation of any physical law or quirk to suit his fictional purpose is half the fun of Science Fiction. Three pillars of Science Fiction, then, are psychology, mythology, and of course technology. But they are all bound by a common force: fear. Fear often comes in two quantitative clinical groups, fear of the Mad Scientists and fear...
...Kelso estimates, the funds for capital investment through increased stock sales would support economic expansion at hitherto undreamed-of rates of perhaps 15% or 20% a year, creating a great demand for labor. Second, companies would be tempted to adopt Kelso's plan voluntarily, partly because of a quirk in tax laws. For example, if Beneficial Paper Co., with 1,000 employees, wanted $20 million to build a factory, it would issue $20 million worth of new common stock. An employee-owned trust, set up somewhat like existing pension and profit-sharing trusts, would buy the shares with money...
...that the debenture would fail, Saunders went again to Washington and cal.ed for a secret meeting of Government leaders. TIME Correspondent Mark Sullivan reports that a powerful lineup attended: Attorney General John Mitchell, Treasury Secretary David Kennedy. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird and White House Aide Peter Flanigan. By a quirk of fate, the meeting took place on May 26, the day that stock prices plunged to the year's low so far. Saunders could hardly have picked a more opportune moment to ask for a handout. "The Penn Central is in a state of financial crisis," he said...