Word: businessese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lack of competitive enterprise among British businesses is a major cause of the country's economic woes. The Labor government does not seem to get this message-and last week two of Britain's most profitable companies were under bureaucratic attack precisely because they are fiercely competitive.
Harvard Student Agencies began in 1957, and has traditionally emphasized the need for student initative and small student businesses. It employs more than 400 students, and operates 23 separate businesses in the Harvard community. Last year HSA sales were $1.2 million
"You always imitate people richer than you," says Paris Interior Decorator Slavik, who designed "Les Drugstores" in Paris. Slavik makes the point, though, that the imitator usually puts his own imprint on what he imitates; he did not design his stores to resemble American drugstores, but "we knew the name...
President Banda found himself in control of that rarest of African commodities-a politically stable nation. And Banda is the man who keeps it that way. A natty, gnomelike former physician, Banda led his tiny (46,000 sq. mi.) country's fight for independence from the Central African Federation...
In widely different businesses, two major executives last week went over and out: