Word: closers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fortune in the Industrial Revolution. His second wife is an Italian countess who was once fashion editor of the British Vogue. As President of the Board of Trade, Thorneycroft earned a reputation for courage and clarity, for economic liberalism and opposition to monopolies. He, like Macmillan, is eager for closer economic ties to Europe...
...never notably a pioneer, though he introduced some of the music of his contemporaries (Pagliacci in 1892, La Bohème in 1896, the first performances in Italy of Wagner's Götterdämmerung and Siegfried). His abiding interest was "to come closer to the secrets of Beethoven and a few other eternal masters." For the majority of musicians, music lovers and critics the world over, he came closer to realizing the music of Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner and Verdi than any conductor ever did. No conductor can copy him exactly; he was ever searching, ever changing...
...What was happening was less a falling off of demand than a change in buying habits. With steel production at the fastest rate in history and no worry about a steel strike, buyers are not tying up their cash in inventory, as they did last year. They are buying closer to production schedules, demanding immediate delivery. Chrysler, for example, is still whittling down its steel leftovers from disappointing 1956, plans to step up buying...
...these criticisms as questions, because we frankly do not know the answers. We admit we have doubts, but they can be answered by those who know at closer hand the problems of the Business School. Assuming for a moment, however, that there are limitations to the effectiveness of the Case Method, would it not worth considering setting up a required course which would depart both from a consideration of practical problems and the use of the Case Method? This course would center upon the philosophical and historical problems of business and its responsibilities in the modern world. It certainly would...
...Commonwealth. In fact, both the U.S. and the Commonwealth may find Britain a better partner if Britain has much closer ties with Europe...