Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Americans cannot help but feel some satisfaction in a well-argued French brief that Europe should do as we do in modern business. The success of Europe in meeting our challenge is very much in our interest too. It is only in narrow and short-range terms that it is good for us to profit from a management gap. The answer is as clear today as it has been since the Marshall Plan: an unequal partnership with Europe is not good for the United States. We cannot do for Europeans what they have not yet done for themselves. We cannot...
Neutral Ground. Allis-Chalmers remained vulnerable to takeover, in large part because its officers and directors held too little of its stock-less than 1%-to put up much resistance. It accordingly began casting about for a partner more to its liking (one brief suitor was General Dynamics). Finally, with a Manhattan brokerage house acting as catalyst, talks were set up in Denver with Signal President Forrest N. Shumway. The critical decision to negotiate toward merger came in October in a phone call between Allis-Chalmers Chairman Robert S. Stevenson and Shumway, who was attending a Notre Dame football game...
...ubiquitous computer offers the schedule maker an escape from old-fashioned routine. Programmed by Stanford Professors Dwight W. Allen and Robert V. Oakford, the university's digital giant has taught schools across the country how to build schedules out of combinations of "modules" as brief as 15 minutes in length, how to put the ideal of all but unlimited flexibility into daily practice...
...initial CRIMSON news article there was a brief summary of general response to Scarborough College. The article made the point that the professional response was enthusiastic, but it suggested that the response of students and staff was negative and sharply critical. It is always difficult to give a fair assessment of public opinion, especially in the area of architecture. It is my impression, however, that there was great enthusiasm among the students and staff, certainly among those who have an interest in architecture and were prepared to welcome innovation...
Every reader, Borges believes, can see himself clearly and momentarily in the mirror of the book, each receiving a different reflection. The function of his art is to provide this brief personal insight...