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...roman policier: the name Maigret itself connotes a kind of thinness, a stylistic baldness. Unlike the elegant Sherlock Holmes, Commissaire Maigret is a bourgeois hero, a symbol of the unpretentious common man; he uses no complicated forensics, no tricks of reason, his habits are ordinary--his only asset is a persistent, though mediocre intellect. Judging from the 300 million copies Simenon's works have sold in 43 languages (excepting Lenin, the most translated oeuvre in all literature), Maigret is a phenomenon worth considering...
...Ford out of the race but winds up bruised and vulnerable in the process, there will be an opportunity. "I can't get involved in scuttling a sitting President," he notes. "But Reagan can. Reagan has built a real constituency in the party. Ford never has. His principal asset is the muscle and mystique of the presidency." Now Connally is at the end of the sofa, knee to knee finally, leaning forward...
...gathered in 18% of the shares, or more than half the amount needed to block the merger. Evans, a master of the takeover game, is no man to back away from a fight. "He loves a contest, thrives on it," says a onetime associate. "He's an asset player-buys them cheap." Predictably, Evans declared last week that he would vote Crane's shares against the Tenneco merger...
...Doris Kearns is charismatic, admired, intelligent, interesting, a great teacher, and in all aspects an asset to the university. It is absurd that she might not be given tenure because of a legal dispute with a publishing company of because of vague misgivings that she is not "serious" enough. The 1974-75 Confi-guide bemoaned the fact that Doris Kearns might someday voluntarily leave the university...
Both governments have efficiently mobilized their major asset, a hard-working population, by offering material rewards and improved living standards. South Korea coupled land reform, through which nearly all agricultural acreage became the property of its cultivators, with a policy that allowed food prices to rise enough so that farmers were encouraged to work hard to increase output. As a result, peasants earn more than urban factory workers-an average $139 per month, compared with $133 for factory workers-and produce more rice per acre than the industrious Japanese. In Taiwan, government-sponsored rural associations give each farmer access...