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Perhaps the main reason is that good managers are a function of their competition. If the competition is slothful, as it was in some parts of Europe for many years after World War II, management becomes moss-backed. If competition is brisk, management turns innovative. The big entry of U.S. companies into European markets has done much to galvanize home-grown managers into meeting "the American challenge." And the decline of tariffs within the Common Market has made European producers start thinking about the competition immediately beyond their borders...
...change either one." Merchants who relied on the Republicans to be big spenders were also disappointed. "We will be lucky if we break even," says Sheila Roth, who ran a souvenir booth in the lobby of the Fontainebleau Hotel last week. Two exceptions: button sellers did a brisk business, and some delicatessens did well during the Democratic gathering. "You would be surprised how many Democrats came in to buy bread and cold cuts to take to their rooms," says one counterman...
...ECONOMY. Belatedly, the President took command by imposing a wage-price freeze that has worked better than most critics said it would. Inflation has been slowed, and the G.N.P. is beginning to rise at a brisk rate. By devaluing the dollar, the President showed that he could be as flexible as he had to be in handling the economy...
...still insist on their fun. Last week a few hundred hardy gamblers turned up for the reopening of the Brandywell Dog Track, which is located at the far end of the Bogside. Undeterred by the occasional stray bullets whizzing overhead from the "nogo" Bogside area, three bookmakers did a brisk business in totes. Out of 49 hounds needed for the meet's seven races, only 28 had made it. The others were held up on Craigavon Avenue, where traffic was delayed for two hours while British troops searched for explosives and arms...
...poetry by some oppressed New England saint; she preferred to scrutinize fictional heroines familiar to us all. Given the title of her lecture. "Seduced and Betrayed Women in Fiction," I had at least expected a descent into revealing murky depths along this pleasant stroll. But Hardwick's approach remained brisk and cheerful. Her "different way of seeing things now" did not represent a rallying-cry to the oppressed, to the long-suffering victims of sexual exploitation and abandonment, but an elementary lesson in power politics: meet your favorite heroine and watch her gain power through victimization. From the bronchial death...