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During the 1970s, Scouting seemed embarrassed by its old-fashioned ways. It tried to go modern, moving away from the outdoor skills stressed by Lieut. General Robert Baden-Powell, hero of the Boer War, when he founded the British Boy Scouts at Brownsea Island...
...dialogue is kept going between management and "partners." The company also spends some $500,000 a year on cultural subsidies (half-price tickets to Covent Garden and the Old Vic) and such perks as clubs (30, from gardening to judo) and low-cost holidays in the company-owned Brownsea Castle at Poole Harbor...
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