Word: rand
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Perhaps the most important of Greenspan's early gurus was Ayn Rand, the best-selling author of novels like Atlas Shrugged. Though Rand is now generally viewed as a pop philosopher who was neither a rigorous nor original thinker, she was fresh and influential when Greenspan met her in 1952. The economist became taken with her theory of objectivism, which argues that society is best served by "rational selfishness," in which people act only to further their own private interests. Greenspan, who was a friend of Rand's until her death in 1982, credits the writer with teaching him that...
...AIDS were creeping into the heterosexual population, it would most likely be doing so in New York City, which has one-third of the nation's AIDS cases. Yet Rand Stoneburner, director of the city's AIDS research division, says the spread of the disease has been surprisingly circumscribed: "In the most recent tests, we found less than 1% testing positive who were outside the high-risk category...
Solomon, today's director, has ideal qualifications. A China scholar, he joined Kissinger's staff in 1971 and later headed the political-science department at the Rand Corp. Each morning he meets with Shultz for 45 minutes to discuss long-range policies, and he goes along on major diplomatic missions. Most important of all, he says, he has time to think. Given the daily evidence of the dangers of ill-conceived initiatives concocted in secret, this legacy of a more thoughtful era is something to contemplate...
...take over South Africa, but I don't like the way that people treat the blacks either. I pay my boys well, and they like working for me. But hell, % man, I wouldn't want to live next door to them. Still, when I go to football matches at Rand Stadium, I realize how many of them there are and that we have to make a deal with them in order to survive...
...that meeting wanted to see a new coherent society based on demonstrable justice and a court-monitored bill of rights." Murray Hofmeyr, incoming chairman of the Johannesburg Chamber of Commerce, has called on South African business leaders to oppose injustice. And Michael Rosholt, chief executive of Barlow Rand, South Africa's second largest industrial empire, has also appealed to business leaders to support reform...