Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Businessmen who live high on the hog irritate a Brazilian intellectual named Israel Klabin. "In an underdeveloped country," says Klabin, "there can be no elite." Yet Klabin himself, a businessman as well as a Sorbonne graduate, belongs to-and prizes membership in -an elite of sorts. At 36, he is one of Brazil's brightest young businessmen and the primus inter pares of an unusual family whose members share equally the profits and responsibilities of running a $130 million business complex. "We are," says Israel Klabin, "something like the Rothschilds...
Many corporate chiefs complain that Government research programs suffer from the bureaucratic ills of mismanagement, wastefulness, duplication and inefficiency. And every knowing businessman realizes that it takes a long time to translate Government research into new products in the marketplace; commercial atomic power, mail-by-missile and tourist trips to the moon are still very far from reality. An even greater concern for businessmen is that Government projects are luring the best researchers away from industry and pushing up the salaries of those who remain. "Scientists and engineers are just not interested in working on a new type of washing...
...Spanish that way, and Douglas Dillon perfected his French. Academic critics charge that The Method is acultural and fails to teach people to comprehend such things as the nuances of foreign-language poetry. Berlitz does not debate the point; but it does claim that it can help a businessman close a deal by giving him an effective working knowledge of the everyday language...
...change at the Business School in recent years has been the conscious widening of horizons, and the willingness to employ new techniques in training business administrators. Simply stated, the School has asked itself whether its concept of the "tough-minded" decision maker can survive in an era when the businessman needs both an expanded social conscience and a grasp of new quantitative techniques...
...Southern Negroes with broader goals boycott entire business districts as a community protest. In Birmingham, retailers have averaged a $750,000 weekly loss, some because Negro trade boycotted stores, some because whites did not venture downtown for fear of possible violence. "The boycott seems to be moderating," says one businessman. "But it has been effective all right." In Macon, Ga., last year, Negroes discontinued riding buses to protest segregated seating, came back only after the bus company, suffering a 50% fare loss, capitulated. Charleston, S.C., Negroes won 16 clerks' jobs by selective buying, tightened their boycott with weekly "name...