Word: building
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time-tested way to build a big company. First come up with a good product or service and give it a catchy name. Then recruit an army of entrepreneurs to carry that name into cities and towns all across the U.S., or even the world. The phenomenon is known as franchising, and it has created millionaires galore and made empires of McDonald's, Holiday Inn and Baskin- Robbins...
...Hess's case, the cage will also vanish. The four wartime Allies announced last week that Spandau would be demolished to keep it from becoming a shrine for Nazi sympathizers. Britain, which administers the sector of West Berlin that includes Spandau, plans to build a supermarket and an entertainment center on the site. The new facilities will cater to the 4,000 British service members and their families whose presence in West Berlin remains one of the legacies of Hitler's thousand-year Third Reich...
Ordinarily it takes decades to build an industrial behemoth on the scale of General Electric, West Germany's Siemens or Japan's Hitachi, but last week a world-class electrical-engineering giant was born practically overnight. In a surprise strategic move, two smaller European competitors -- Switzerland's Brown, Boveri and Sweden's ASEA -- announced a plan to merge their main operating divisions into a joint venture that would boast annual sales of more than $15 billion and employ some 160,000 workers. The new ASEA Brown Boveri should be a potent competitor in the global market for heavy electrical products...
...cojones to stand on a stage or a sound stage and do this: wear a novelty-store arrow on your head; blow up balloons, twist them into animal shapes and announce the resulting sculpture as "venereal disease!"; tap-dance maniacally when seized with an attack of "Happy Feet"; then build a movie career running variations on a character you might call the suburban jerk. And mainly this: wait bravely for years until your public gets the comic point...
...ability of America and her allies to defend themselves in the case of a Soviet attack in Europe or Asia. Since World War II, Moscow has maintained--at great cost to its economy and standard of living--massive conventional forces poised for an invasion of West Germany. This build-up is anything but "peaceful" and "defensive"; no country needs three times as many tanks as its enemy to protect herself...