Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...September 14 edition of the Harvard Gazette, President Bok refers to Harvard's educational mission in the Third World mentioning the schools of management organized by the Business School in countries such as Marcos's Philippines and the Shah's Iran. (Another is being planned in that wonder of capitalist (under) development, Kenya...
...black I find it ludicrous that black American leaders are now preoccupied with the P.L.O. cause. I wonder how many are also concerned with the cause of blacks in Dominica, 60,000 of whom are homeless because of Hurricane David...
...standpoint most damnable exception is the weekly paper Le Canard Enchaîné-literally, The Chained Duck-which pursues scandal with all the gusto of a Gallic gourmet tucking into a baba au rhum. These days the Chained Duck is flapping its wings triumphantly, and no wonder: dangling from its bill is the meticulously aloof French President, Valery Giscard d'Estaing...
James Hilton, the author of Lost Horizons, modeled his apocryphal land of "Shangri-la" after Tibet. Heinrich Harrer, a European mountaineer who served as tutor to the Dalai Lama during the 40s, wrote in wonder of a land where one quarter of the adult population were monks or nuns. In his travels through Tibet. Harrer noted that there were no public inns. Tibetans opened their homes to all travelers, he wrote, as if grateful for the opportunity to serve. Harrer encountered niches of subtropical vegetation growing amidst snow-covered montains, monasteries built upon seemingly inaccessible cliffs, and mediums...
Some economists now wonder if the nation has so successfully insulated itself from a 1929-type depression that it is condemned to 13% or worse inflation. Robert Heilbroner argues that the postwar measures to avoid another Crash and Depression have "put a floor under the downward movement of the economy." This guarantee against disaster, in Heilbroner's view, has changed economic expectations so much that corporations raise prices and unions demand higher wages more recklessly than they otherwise would. The result is faster inflation. Thus the cure for the Great Crash, seen from this perspective, has created side effects...