Word: used
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...offices have already been rented. The first tenant to move in was the Chicago advertising agency of Post-Keyes-Gardner Inc. (billings: $45 million), which took over the 35th floor. Despite the prestige of being located in Chicago's newest landmark, the agency will not use the John Hancock Center's name as an address on its letterheads. One of its clients is another insurance company...
Klein obviously has in mind using at least part of his dividend to finance some new mergers and acquisitions. Even with its surplus cut in half, Great American has more than the industrywide average of loss reserves in relation to its underwriting volume. "We did no milking," Klein insists. "We are staying in the insurance business. We paid about $500 million for the company, so obviously we aren't going to hurt ourselves. What many businessmen fail to keep in mind is that the proper utilization of capital is the cornerstone of U.S. industry." That, of course...
...issue at stake is a simple one: whether Nixon will use Federal money as a tool in the war against school segregation in the South. Johnson and his secretaries of Health, Education, and Welfare wasted little time making a decision. The ten discouraging years that followed the 1954 Supreme Court decision taught Federal officials that court rulings were too slow and too limited to solve the problem alone. And the problem continued: by 1964, 10 years after the Supreme Court legally banned separate school systems, only 3 per cent of the black children of Alabama and Mississippi were attending schools...
...administration would never stoop to cutting off the Federal aid. But when the national press picked up the story, a flood of protest rolled down from the North. Back in New York three days later, Nixon recanted, saying that he didn't mean to "imply that we would not use all the available tools to guarantee equal education...
...petition, which characterizes the present grading system as "abhorrent" and "inimical to learning," the sectionmen state that they plan to use the open forum as a means of expressing reasons for the total elimination of grades at Harvard...