Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Business is taking a more direct approach in Washington, Adam begins. "I think businessmen have decided they haven't been winning much staying back in their cave," he says. "And they can't send the corporals and the sargents and the captains to the field all the time; the general has to appear as well...
...proposal drew predictable howls from states and communities that depend on military payrolls. In Homestead, Fla., 30 miles south of Miami, businessmen are worried about the economic impact of the transfer of a 1,650-man contingent from Homestead Air Force Base to installations in North Carolina and Texas. The rebilleting, says Mayor Nicholas Sincere, would slash the $105 million local military spending by about $25 million...
Seeing all this, businessmen are coming to the conclusion that burning coal is just asking for trouble. Since the annual growth of U.S. electric energy consumption has slowed from nearly 7% in the early 1970s to little more than 4% now, utilities are scrapping or deferring plans for new generating plants...
Unlike most Japanese businessmen who rely on consensus management, Saji constantly dares his 3,700 employees to express their individuality and come up with "breakthrough ideas."; Says he: "Out of a rigid consensus system, no good ideas can emerge."; One of Saji's ideas was to promote his company's beer and wine as well as whisky through franchised Suntory Pubs; 30,000 of them now dot Japan. He also opened a computerized distillery in 1973 near Mount Fuji. With only 75 employees, it turns out 11.8 million gallons a year, or 60% of Suntory's malt...
...becoming more and more difficult to lie to people," Zinn said. He added that there were no safe guards for nuclear power as long as businessmen "ran the country...