Word: rand
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...cited the 1993 Rand Corp. report which examined the treatment of gays and lesbians in police departments and the military as evidence that police departments have been paving the way for fair treatment of gays and lesbians in recent years...
...which owns numerous properties including Sheraton hotels and Madison Square Garden, said that besides being too low, the Hilton offer of $55 a share (or $6.5 billion total) was incompatible with its goals. "There are serious business conflicts in a Sheraton-Hilton combination," said ITT chairman Rand Araskog. The move is part of a strategy designed to push Hilton's offer above $60 a share. "This is not the end of it. Now the real fun begins," says TIME's John Greenwald. "ITT made its expected move, and Hilton will very likely raise its offer." If Hilton's combative...
...even without these facts, the range of topics covered during the "Ayn Rand Comes to Harvard" lecture series should be proof enough that Objectivism is a philosophy worth taking note of. Lecture topics ranged from the nature of man's free will to the proper basis for the ethics of the evil of multiculturalism. Even people who only made it to the debate on the morality of selfishness last December 10 heard Professor Harry Binswanger lay out a detailed chain of reasoning to establish that by virtue of the facts of reality and of human nature, the pursuit of rational...
...should be obvious that aspiring opponents of this new and radical philosophy were given ample opportunity to hone their skills refuting all these unpopular ideas. But what is the best that Ayn Rand's critics at this august institution can throw at her? Objectivism is lumped in with conservatism, as if Ayn Rand's vision of man as a rational, productive, heroic being were compatible with the conservative vision of a wretched sinner who will sacrifice himself for the needy willingly if the government will just let him. Objectivists are caricatured as blind followers, as if being convinced...
...that he was looking to make significant additions to Hilton's hotel holdings. Last week he found what he was looking for--more than 130,000 rooms. Those lodgings happen to do business under the banner of Sheraton, which happens to be owned by ITT Corp. and run by Rand Araskog, a man not keen on having his corporate masterwork painted over. That's why Hilton's $55-a-share, $6.5 billion offer for ITT, whose holdings also include the Caesars World chain of casinos and Madison Square Garden, is becoming the kind of delicious dogfight that Wall Street loves...