Word: system
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...always had the philosophy that the Management Co. should not be so large that everyone couldn't sit around the same table," says George Putnam, the Harvard treasurer who fathered the University's system of managing its own investments...
...REAL BUSINESS OF AMERICA is, as Calvin Coolidge once said, business, then who needs intellectuals? Breaking Ranks in Norman Podhoretz' attempt to answer this question. In a world where the exclusive concerns of professional politicians are "the distribution of patronage and the administration of the going system," intellectuals, Podhoretz affirms, bear the responsibility of providing us vision and direction. Breaking Ranks is his unabashed celebration of intellectualism...
Protest leaders said they considered the day a success even though they failed to halt trading on the exchange. "This brings the connection between nuclear power and our economic system into the public eye," Carri Tarver, leader of a Greenwich Village group of protesters, said yesterday...
This is too bad, because the picture's premise is not a bad one. It has the would-be robbers casing a bank that is still under construction and sneaking in to build right into its sophisticated alarm system the means by which they can disarm...
...radicalism advanced in the decade, he began to have his doubts. He was an early opponent of the Viet Nam War, but he did not agree with his fellow intellectuals that the conflict was an indictment of the American political system...