Word: result
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...passing. Most wait. Politics has replaced academics as the institutionalized rationale for living at Columbia this month. The huge apathetic majority has been forced to take a side. But politics does not give a student much to do unless he sit-ins or counter-demonstrates. As a result there is constant political potential for a large demonstration...
...place that the Los Angeles County Department of Adoptions has taken to broadcasting their availability on commercial TV. Since October, the department has shown 64 such children on a once-weekly quarter-hour segment of Ben Hunter's Matinee, a program of old movies interspersed with talk. Result: up to 35 phone calls immediately following each show and 34 of the children adopted, including a two-year-old boy with eye trouble, a one-year-old girl with club feet, and a two-month-old Filipino-Chinese-Hawaiian...
...influx of $450 million raised to modernize the creaky 117-year-old company, Western Union's growth rate has been discouraging. Telegrams, which still account for 46% of the company's revenues, were off last year; some modernization programs were slow getting started and, as a result, revenues rose a meager 5%. But Western Union does have some interesting possibilities. One is that, in spite of assets of $741 million, its total common-stock value is about $350 million-which puts it in the range that an acquisitive-minded smaller company could manage. Moreover...
...exchange of stock worth $350 million, Western Union will become a part of nine-year-old Computer Sciences. Jones pointed out that his company and Western Union had been working with each other for four years developing ways to transmit computer read-outs over telegraph circuits. As a result, he said, they share "an awareness of what a combination of the two companies could achieve...
...belletrist and amateur Orientalist, carried this principle to an extreme when he translated the 12th century Persian poem The Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayaam. He condensed, combined and reshuffled the stanzas, dropping what did not suit him and pumping in generous transfusions of his own sentimental, post-Darwin fatalism. The result is one of the enduring minor poems of the language-awash with fanciful exoticism, vivid and resonant. But scholars have been scandalized by the liberties that FitzGerald took with the original, and for a century have tried in vain to supplant his version with more literal renderings...