Word: safe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...students' career aspirations show only the vaguest commitment to social welfare and reveal a desire to play safe. The shift away from graduate study in academic disciplines and toward the professions, particularly law and medicine, shows the primacy of role and allows them to retain an ambiguity in their attitude toward class. While some students seek to escape organizational constraint by pursuing careers as writers or artists, few search for a life of creative activity. When pressed, many of these free souls will reveal the ambition of celebrity. A commitment to significant work does not distinguish them from the aspirants...
...safe to say that none of these resolutions will get the support of a majority of stockholders in the corporations involved. If a resolution gets as much as 3 per cent support, however, it can be filed again the next year, while if it gets less than 3 per cent, the filer has to wait three years before introducing it again. The people filing these resolutions are trying only to apply public pressure to corporations, because they realize that the vast majority of shareholders are completely unaware of proxy resolutions and will not vote. So being able to re-introduce...
...much narrower the circle has been drawn by the grand jury remained locked at week's end in Judge Sirica's courthouse safe: a letter in a manila envelope and a bulging briefcase. Together, those two ordinary artifacts of everyday life could contain enough critical mass to produce the largest bombshell yet in Watergate's long, concussive series. Richard Nixon may manage to survive whatever conclusions and evidence they lay out; perhaps their contents...
June 19. Charles Colson and Ehrlichman met with Dean at the White House, and Ehrlichman directed Dean to open Hunt's safe in the Executive Office Building and take the contents (which included various secret documents and electronic equipment). Dean has testified that...
Nixon sought out the safe waters of the Young Republicans meeting in the Shoreham Hotel. When they chanted in feverish ecstasy "Three more years!" the President held up three fingers and waved to them reassuringly. Some of them came by the White House later for a reception...