Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Taxes. About 90% of the action involves conglomerate corporations, those multi-industry companies whose desire to acquire often produces crazy-quilt mergers. Alarmed critics complain about shaky financial foundations, untested managements, dubious use of tax loopholes and overconcentration of economic power. Last week conglomerates ran into simultaneous and serious attack from both Congress and the Nixon Administration. The assault will almost certainly lead to new laws to control the conglomerate movement. "We're going after this," says a ranking White House adviser. "Otherwise, we'd have an economy like the Japanese, with certain large families owning everything...
Where he goes from here is an intriguing question, and could prove a serious dilemma for him. There is quite a difference between letting go and catching on, and with Portnoy's Complaint, Roth has caught on, but good. He has said that he will write about catching...
...full accord with the statement of the 113 members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on February 17 and the response of President Pusey. The intrusion of students into a classroom a Hunt Hall for the purpose of influencing the content of a course was an extremely serious infringement of academic freedom and threat to the foundations of the university community...
...this particular instance, the instructor in charge of the course, believing that a serious misinterpretation had occurred, was in fact willing to discuss the substantive issues raised by the objectors to the proposed case-study. Subsequent discussions between Dr. Breuning and the students were at times tense, but fundamentally responsible and constructive...
...process of photo offset," Lewis said. "We pointed it out to the Business School, but apparently they didn't give a damn." Lewis added that the Globe too has "been known to borrow our material." "And not give it back," Mindich muttered Problems with the Business School became more serious that simple plagiarism; however, the issue became similar, in fact, to the current hassle over BAD's authorization on the Harvard campus. At the B-School it was HarBus objecting--partly on the grounds that BAD was editorial competition, but also because they feared advertising competition. "Everyone picks up Boston...