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...supermarket age," said the Chief Justice, "we are like a merchant trying to operate a cracker-barrel grocery store with the methods and equipment of 1900." When it comes to funds, he noted, "the entire cost of the federal judicial system is $128 million," compared with $200 million for a single C-5A military airplane. But "more money and more judges alone is not the real solution," he said. "Some of what is wrong is due to the failure to apply the techniques of modern business to the management of the purely mechanical operation of the courts-of modern record...
...secretary, Karen Liable could type "four-barrel carburetor," but she certainly did not know what it did or even looked like. For precisely that reason, she was picked to leave her desk at the Ford Motor Co. last week, don coveralls, and approach a waiting Pinto, the 2,000-lb. subcompact that Ford will put on sale Sept. 11. Her mission: to perform many of the adjustments described in the owner's manual, The Happy Pinto -and How to Keep It That Way. If Karen failed, Ford officials said, the manual would be deemed a failure, and would have...
Over Whose Barrel? The governments can only push the companies so far. As one Beirut-based U.S. oil executive puts it: "The companies have the countries over a barrel-every barrel they produce. The name of the game is markets and marketing, and no country or group of countries today is rich enough to match what the companies have built up. If the Arab countries try, they simply cut their own throats, since they could never be competitive...
Roll Out the Barrel. Though bourbon and spirit blends remain the overwhelming favorites of American drinkers, both have been slipping in popularity. Consumption of distilled spirits has been growing at 6% annually in the U.S., and last year reached 375 million gallons. In the past twelve years, however, bourbon's share of the market has declined from 30% to 23%, and blended whisky has gone down from 33% to 21%. Meanwhile, the market share held by Scotch has risen from 7.6% to 12.5%. Gin's share increased from 9% to 10% and vodka's from...
Believing in Bargains. The brake on auto sales has all but eliminated the visceral promotions plugging four-barrel carburetors and twin cams to a rollicking dragstrip beat. "The American car-buying public is interested in economy," says Ford Advertising Manager Paul Tippett. "Our ads have to be practical rather than emotional." Accordingly, Ford's spring campaign has an "economy drive" theme. Can economy be made exciting? Answers Tippett: "Advertising does not have to be glamorous as long as it is not dull...