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...long been at bay. But more and more men have begun to find the posture ridiculous, or at least uninteresting. Princeton men, in particular, are becoming increasingly family-oriented; wives and children sometimes almost seem to outnumber old grads at the alumni reunions. Other city clubs have tried to adjust by setting aside special rooms for the ladies. But Princeton decided to end the purdah...
...heavier payments are the result of the complicated shuffle of tax payments necessary to adjust to the speedup. Under present rules, corporations do not begin paying taxes on the current year until September, and then continue paying them in quarterly installments through June of the following year. Under the new system, corporations will estimate their annual tax bill in April and make their first payment then; by year's end all the installments will have been paid. If the shift were made suddenly from the old to the new system, it would cause a doubling up of payments, raising...
...treat his giants like children. He rarely invokes a curfew, lets them enjoy a beer or two after the game. Whether his high-priced players are "happy" does not interest Auerbach. "It's up to them to make me happy," he snorts. "I tell them they must adjust to me. I won't adjust to them...
...were messy right from the beginning. Within a few years after the U.S. first imposed an income tax, to help finance the Civil War, President Lincoln apologized to the nation for the "inequities in the practical applications." But he added: "If we should wait before collecting a tax, to adjust the taxes upon each man in exact proportion with every other, we should never collect...
Hewlett and Packard are resigned to the fact that they cannot stop developing new products. To adjust to bigness, they have decentralized and delegated authority. "There are advantages to bigness, too," says Hewlett briskly. "We want to combine the strength of the big with the "initiative of the small...