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...early 1920s and ran it until 1956. In 1921, Sloan recommended that GM rationalize its products by manufacturing "a line of cars in each price area, from the lowest price up to one for a strictly high-grade quantity production car." After eliminating moribund models like the Scripps-Booth, and phasing out another, the Oakland, Sloan created the five-division lineup that has survived for nearly 60 years...
...ancient prayers of confession of sins, and the most solemn period in Judaism's ceremonial calendar is Yom Kippur, the annual Day of Atonement. In Catholic Christianity the sacrament reached its classic form by the 11th century; five centuries later the custom developed of holding confession in a booth, with penitent and priest speaking to each other through an opening in a partition. So strict is the privacy that a Catholic priest is forbidden even to reveal knowledge about crimes acquired under the confessional "seal...
...making their First Communion, as the Vatican desires, or a few years later when they may have a better understanding of the nature of sin. A majority of U.S. parishes now offer face-to-face confession with a priest as an alternative to the austere, anonymous meeting in a booth. The Vatican allows a communal rite of "general absolution," but only in extraordinary circumstances (for example, on battlefields or in mission areas that lack priests...
Among the most successful of the boutique managers is David Booth, 37, who operates out of a small, 19th century brownstone in Brooklyn Heights, N.Y. Since launching a company called Dimensional Fund Advisers in 1981, Booth has recruited 45 clients with pension funds containing $750 million. He invests mostly in the stocks of the 300 smallest companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange and the bottom 400 of the American Stock Exchange. Over the first ten months of 1983, the return on Booth's investments was a phenomenal...
...Chargit, the nation's first large-scale ticket-by-phone service, has expanded from a mom-and-pop ticket booth in Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station to a 24-hour computerized phone operation that will sell close to 3 million tickets this year, many via its toll-free 800 number. In addition to booking Broadway and off-Broadway shows, sports and other live events, Chargit is trying to spread ticket-by-phone fever to movies. It has already offered phone reservations to such films as Return of the Jedi and Sophie's Choice...