Word: wall
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...work entirely apart from his law-firm job. "Do it again?" he says. "I'll do one a week. It was the greatest experience I've ever had." > Chicago's Donald P. Moore, 35, was a top-of-his-class (Illinois, '56) candidate for Wall Street, but chose to work for local indigents instead. In 1957 he took on Emil Reck, a feeble-minded murder defendant serving 99 years on the basis of a coerced confession. Moore spent four no-fee years fighting to a Supreme Court victory that freed Reck. In 1961 he won another...
...goal of the Department for the Reform of Public Administration, headed by Luigi Preti, known as "Luigi XIV" because the department has had 13 previous heads in 17 years. Preti admits he has not had much luck. "Whoever tries to reform finds himself up against a rubber wall," he sighs. "If it were a steel wall, you could take a cannon and knock it down. But the rubber wall-you hit it with your fist, then turn away, and the wall has returned to where...
Staggered Studs. Instead of placing sleeping and living areas wall to wall, the builders separate them with rows of closets in which the clothes themselves act as insulation. The studs in the Fiberglas-insulated walls are staggered, so that no single stud touches both sides of the wall, therefore cannot conduct noise. On the ceiling, sound is absorbed by 2 in. of glass wool surfaced with vinyl. To reduce the clatter of heels, vinyl is laid over an asbestos-and-foam cushion on the floor. Other floors have wall-to-wall carpeting with extra-thick underpadding
...constant and shrewd reader of profit and loss statements. He looks for companies with broad stock ownership, shares undervalued in relation to book values, sluggish management and sickly earnings. If he finds a likely case, he may dispatch aides to probe the situation deeper, use his contacts in Wall Street to find out why things are not better than they are. Eventually Simon may make a visit to the company himself?he took eight trips to West Virginia in the course of buying into Wheeling Steel?but his trips are mainly for general impressions rather than to learn exact detail...
...says, "if I can have a real and honest communication with the management. I don't think getting a seat on the board is tremendously significant, even in terms of getting information about what goes on inside a company. There's an awful lot of information that flows around Wall Street." When Simon is frustrated in his attempt to effect reforms, however, the qualities that have made him one of the most feared businessmen in the land quickly come to bear...