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According to the preliminary report of the team, "there is clearly a need to expose Central American managers, starting at the top, to the problems which they confront to encourage them to analyze these problems in depth, and to broaden their vision...
...Aggie Spirit." Davis began in 1905 as Berkeley's farm. Ag students went up there, 60 miles north, to practice planting and harvesting. As mass-farming grew, Davis trained managers and technicians; to broaden their education, it opened a liberal arts college in 1951. Then in 1959, to help accommodate California's burgeoning college population, Davis was spun off entirely from Berkeley to become a general university campus...
When it gets down to the job each man faces, the similarities end. Besides trying to beef up Pepsi's distribution and marketing system (520 U.S. outlets v. 1,100 for Coke), Kendall needs to broaden his one-product company, is searching around for likely food-line mergers. Austin, on the other hand, can look out from his executive suite in Atlanta on a far-flung organization that has already taken that step; in addition to Coke, he has a promising line of frozen and canned juices, coffee and tea that accounts for 20% of Coke's sales...
Pressured by the school board, he has agreed to broaden his transfer plan. By a vote of 10 to 1, the school board has directed him to take a racial census of the schools, a step that he had previously resisted. Acting under a new state law, the board plans to redraw school district boundaries to speed integration. Says one board member: "I believe that Willis intends to carry out these proposals. I'm counting on it. He will either carry them out or leave. That's been made clear...
...sell has been so effective that they pulled in $6 billion in new savings in the year's first half-and are having trouble finding enough borrowers to put it to work. S & L spokesmen will go to washington after Labor Day to try to persuade Congress to broaden their lending powers, an aim for which they already have the enthusiastic backing of Chairman Joseph Patrick McMurray of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, Set up by Congress in 1932 to provide emergency credit for S & Ls, the three-man board requires member banks to maintain reserves equal...