Word: blame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both British management and successive governments are to blame for not pumping enough of the right kind of investment into industry to modernize it or, in spite of all the export campaigns, for not really getting out and hard-selling British goods. The job of salesman holds little status in Britain and, for that matter, business itself still tends to be looked down upon as the domain of the hustling parvenu or the disdainful "gentleman amateur...
...acknowledgment of defeat, a recognition that we are not on a springboard but a slide." Still, there were those who argued, and last week saw their arguments vindicated, that Wilson's first act as Prime Minister should have been devaluation. He could justifiably have laid the blame on 13 years of Tory mismanagement and cleared the slate for the fundamental overhaul of the economy needed to make his Socialist dreams of progress for the country at least feasible...
Screenwriter Richard Breen establishes his nowness with lines like "That's one thing you can't blame on Lyndon Johnson" (Sinatra to Oakland, whose jewels have been stolen) and "You interested in acid, pot or banana peels?" (a character called Fat Candy who's a prostitute...
...company from the front office to the production line. He turned a stodgy, Commonwealth-oriented company into a lean operation with new muscle to flex on world markets. Now Chambers wants out. For all his efforts, I.C.I.'s actual performance remains sluggish. And he puts part of the blame on Labor government policies; he complains that "any fool can save the pound by damming the economy." Opting for a far less demanding job, Chambers will leave I.C.I. next spring to become head of London's Royal Insurance...
...exactly three years as chairman. After all, says he, "anything less would be absurd, and any longer will see me an old-age pensioner." I.C.I.'s profit picture is expected to brighten during those three years. If it does not, Sir Paul's actions may be to blame, but Sir Peter will wind up paying for them...