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Thirty years ago, when John Kenneth Galbraith published The New Industrial State , he was sure he knew where the modern economy was going and was contemptuous of economists who clung to their old ideas about the primacy of markets.
The key word in Silicon Valley has always been "equity," and the best company leaders have clung to as much of it as they could.
He became President of Magdalen College, Oxford, in his thirties and, since there was no compulsory retirement age in those days, clung to that office until his death, in 1854--at the age of 99!
The scent of incense clung to him.
Whipsawed between the need, on the one hand, to preserve good relations with the White House as it cautiously pushed the landmark civil-rights bill and, on the other, to placate the fiery young activists of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, King "clung to methods suited to his stature as a prince of the Negro church."