Word: towards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...convinced," the noted business man declared at the time, "that the Harvard Business School is making the most significant contribution of which I know toward the strengthening and perpetuation of...enterprise based on individual initiative...
Despite all this, the Rockefeller pledge has forced the Business School today to show real evidence for its reputation. Under terms of the donation, the $5,000,000 must on July 1, 1950 be matched by an equal amount in gifts or pledges toward the School's $20,000,000 expansion program. "It's a real test for us," one official put it recently. "We feel we've got something that helps American business, and now in our drive for funds we'll see if business really thinks we're worth while...
According to the Council dictum, the purpose of the survey is to gather information for published suggestions toward improving efficiency and facilities in the College's eight dining halls and four kitchens...
...Illinois' Democrat Paul Douglas last week tackled three enormous questions: What is the fiscal policy of the U.S.? How can the U.S. manage its money better? And why will there be an estimated $5.5 billion deficit this year during the biggest boom in history? As a start toward getting the answers, the subcommittee got the views, in comprehensive questionnaires, of upwards of 450 U.S. economists, bankers and federal officials...
...going 'brrrr' in front of Bergdorf's"). But what may be his final fling finds him corralled at last by a barbed-wire surtax: while his stern better half sits guard near by, the fat, fading Park Avenue playboy casts a hungry eye toward a torch singer's double exposure-on television...