Word: willingness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While few businessmen were willing to pinpoint the day on which the economy would come out of its slump, the Guaranty Trust knew what could delay the recovery. Said the bank: "The longer management clings to old methods, old products and old pricing policies, the longer it will take to...
Usually, just how much a senior learns about his thesis depends upon whether or not his tutor considers the secrecy ridiculous. Unfortunately, comparatively few faculty members are willing to admit that the present system is generally unwise and inconsistent. Even fewer are willing to do anything about the situation.
Thirty-five years of little association with the Annex seems to have improved Harvard-Radcliffe relations, because by November, 1936, members of Pierian were willing to assist the young Radcliffe Orchestra in some of its bigger concerts. But the Radcliffe Orchestra did not suffer from the lack of Pierian assistance...
WITH the auto industry braked down, Detroit is the U.S.'s most recession-ridden big city (metropolitan pop. 3,650,000). Across the nation unemployment averages 6.7% of the labor force; in Detroit the figure comes to 15.1%. Some 230,000 Detroiters are jobless, and 40,000 of them...
The other part of the reason, of course, is that Castro's men have a cause. They believe in him (and hate Batista) fanatically; they believe that they are fighting for their country's freedom. Their real strength lies in the fact that they are obviously willing to...