Word: turn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country school teachers in the poor Auvergne town of Montboudif, a name, like his own, that used to evoke howls of laughter from school friends because of its sound. To "Pompon," as the French affectionately call him, it has proved no liability. Indeed, he can turn on the peasant touch at the whiff of a Gauloise, and uses it to great effectiveness campaigning. Pompidou blazed through his studies, graduating first in his class from the prestigious École Normale Supérieure in 1934. While his classmates ground away at the school's notoriously brutal classwork, Pompidou forever seemed to have...
Intensified Scare. In the deadly Middle East pattern of blow and counterblow, Nasser's threat was made in response to an Israeli raid into Egypt -which in turn was in retaliation for continued Egyptian shelling along the Suez Canal. As the barrages continued into their fifth week, Israel counted ten more dead...
...reforming their own universities, not only by governing them after years of neglect but by giving campuses the kind of intellectual soul that creates moral authority. "There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools," argues Robert Hutchins. "They must be centers of criticism. If you turn the university into a trade school or a branch of the knowledge industry, there is no real possibility of maintaining it as a center. The parts of a multiversity have no center." To help broaden specialists' minds, Hutchins proposes to halt university expansion whenever enrollment exceeds a few thousand...
John Maynard Keynes pronounced, in copybook style: "The engine which drives Enterprise is not Thrift but Profit." He might also have pointed out that profits revolve in a self-regenerating cycle, providing the impetus for new and expanded ventures, which in turn crank out more profits. When earnings are high, employers can afford to be generous with pay raises. Profits are also the major force that sends the stock market up-or, in their absence, down. And the market's performance has much to do with the hopes and disappointments of the 26 million Americans who own stock...
...sweetest things turn sourest...