Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speaking in Lowell with a hook-up to Burr, Rogers, who is currently a Resident Fellow at the Western Behavorial Science Institute in La Jolla, Calif., called teaching a "vastly overrated function," and described the real goal of teachers as the facilitation of learning. The trully educated man, he said, is the man who has learned how to learn...
...western lust. I am drowning in this past...
...food remains cheap and 1913-vintage rent control keeps the cost of city housing down to a mere $4 to $8 per month. Even so, Austrian workers earn an average of only $1,500 a year, and the Austrian standard of living lags so far behind that of its Western neighbors that some analysts fear a massive emigration of skilled manpower...
...into the desert. We always go fully equipped, taking our own water and supplies, as it were." So says Marc Alexandre, 37, managing director of the Union Internationale d' Analyse Economique et Financière, a Paris-based company better known as Eurofinance. Alexandre's desert is Western Europe, where companies keep information secret that would be routinely available in the U.S. The job of Eurofinance's well-equipped men is to unlock the secrets and break the silence, collecting for clients complete statistics on corporate holdings, activities and profits throughout a continent...
...them, plus $30,000 from four associate subscribers, the company's 80-man staff prepares quarterly reports on the European economy and the most thorough corporate analyses and industrial surveys obtainable on the Continent. Last week Eurofinance clients were digesting a fresh two-volume, 254-page analysis of Western Europe's auto industry; it not only pinpoints which firms produce how much in what countries, but also forecasts the market through 1970. Such a study is extraordinary in Europe. "Our job," says Alexandre, "is to fight tradition. We are unorthodox...