Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administration has gone too far. In outlawing Harvard's traditional wide-open mixers, it has ventured into areas clearly beyond its competence and risked antagonizing egos and libidos hitherto unreached by University Hall manifestos...
Student organizations and House Committees will no longer be permitted to hold wide-open mixers, Dean Watson, member of the Faculty Committee on Houses, said yesterday...
While the first batch of Kennedy Round tariff reductions was going into effect last week, a wide assortment of other trade barriers loomed as high as ever. These are nontariff gimmicks designed to impede the inflow of foreign goods. Wine-producing France, for example, puts a crimp on bourbon and Scotch imports by prohibiting all whisky advertising. In Italy, foreign automakers find it difficult to buy prime time on the state-owned television. Switzerland not only restricts imports of milk products but gives special help-including price supports and low-cost feed-to Swiss dairymen whose cows graze in remote...
With 1967 sales estimated at $735 million, Brown, Boveri is Switzerland's second largest company (after Nestlé), and it took the orders as a long-sought U.S. show of confidence. Brown, Boveri is hardly a household name; yet B.B.C., as it is known, has long generated wide respect for its heavy electrical equipment. Brown, Boveri's parent plant in Baden, near Zurich, depends on exports for 73% of its $146 million sales, which in turn are only a fraction of the company's global business. It has 17 manufacturing subsidiaries worldwide: 76,000 employees...
Ferber is out of place in the list of five. All the other men--including Mitchell Goodman, a New York author, and Marcus Raskin, co-director of Washington's Institute for Policy Studies--are charged with sponsoring the nation-wide draft resistance program. Ferber isn't. All the other men, are ineligible for the draft; Ferber is the only one who is draft eligible and has turned in his card...