Word: shapiro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shapiro, professor of Finance at the Business School, forecast that the imminent increase in short-term interest rates will be transmitted to long-term rates within a year. He added that the restrictive effect this will have on capital investment and residential construction will introduce a "bearish note" into the nation's economy...
...life has been one long weekend, and "every day is Derby Day." While he was still a junior at Notre Dame, a "bachelor millionaire" named Abe Samuels introduced Paul to the chorus line at Chicago's Chez Paree. After he turned pro, a pinball-machine operator named Barney Shapiro staked him to a Las Vegas trip and handled his weekly bets (up to $300) on pro football games. When Paul was suspended in 1963 for gambling, Governor Endicott Peabody of Massachusetts made a speech in his behalf. Wisconsin's Senator Alexander Wiley did his best to get Paul...
Three years ago, Professor Ascher H. Shapiro, head of the Department of Mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, finally proved the counterclockwise movement for the Northern Hemisphere by constructing a perfectly symmetrical tub filling it with with a clockwise swirl, then letting it sit for 24 hours in still air. After that, he carefully pulled the plug and filmed the results. Using Shapiro's technique, five persistent investigators at the University of Sydney have now duplicated his experiment, demonstrating that Down Under water will drain clockwise. To be sure they report in the magazine Nature, they cannot...
...Very Special Favor was written by Stanley Shapiro (Pillow Talk, Operation Petticoat, Lover Come Back, Bedtime Story), which means that it is supposed to be hilariously off-color. Off-color...
...intervention marks a return to "gunboat diplomacy." Many persistent critics, particularly in academic circles, further argue that the Administration acted, in fact "overreacted," without provocation; that the rebels in Santo Domingo represent a legitimate democratic revolution. "On the evidence presented so far," wrote Notre Dame History Professor Samuel Shapiro in the Nation, "the Dominican revolution is no more Communist-controlled than the C.I.O. or the civil rights movement." Poet Archibald MacLeish attributed the U.S. response to "the old myopia of the McCarthy days." On more realistic grounds, a number of experts concede that the intervention may have been justified...