Word: starting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reasons for the foreigners' return start with Castello Branco. While he has slowed but by no means halted inflation (the cost of living is up 39.5% this year), he has demonstrated an encouragingly tough-minded intent that investors do not think will be reversed. The cruzeiro's exchange rate has been held at 2,200 to the dollar for more than a year, taxes are being collected more diligently, credit has been tightened, and the constant wage increases have been slowed. Moreover, his persuasive economics minister, Roberto Campos, has beat bushes abroad convincing hesitant investors that...
...going to publish it, it wouldn't matter. But the thought that if I don't, somebody else will-I can't stand that. Besides, the real excitement is having somebody new come along, helping him get famous and watching him move to Hollywood and start calling me a son of a bitch...
Cerf was itching to get out of Wall Street, and at length, in 1923, he found the door. Another classmate, Richard L. Simon, had been working for the distinguished publishing firm of Boni & Liveright, and now he was planning to start his own house with Max Schuster. When Cerf showed interest in replacing him, Simon arranged for Cerf to meet Horace Liveright for lunch at the Algonquin Hotel, Scotch-and-watering place for the famous authors and wits of the day. "There," he says, "were Robert Sherwood, George S. Kaufman, Marc Connelly, Dorothy Parker-all of them! Sitting...
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...like Andrew T. Weil '64, former editor of the Harvard Review, who will teach "Exposition and Scientific Methods" this spring, remain convinced that "almost all Harvard undergraduate writing is bad" and will continue to emphasize basic stylistic virtues. More often, though, the middle group courses start by assuming technical competence...