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Arming the Union. The reasoning by which the Court arrived at such state-taming decisions is rooted in the burgeoning nationalization of a country that was first united only by the Articles of Confederation, a compact so loaded in favor of the 13 independent-minded states that Congress could not tax, regulate commerce or conduct foreign relations. Only for the sake of national survival did the states...
Though it measures only 400 ft. by 800 ft., the campus has no feeling of being crowded. Yet it is a model of compact efficiency. Arrivals are greeted by a circular bicycle park with partially glassed roof. Jacobsen, who also dabbles in interiors, designed everything from the college silverware and china to its door handles. The high table is lighted with rows of soft Jacobsen lamps. Rooms feature a variant of Jacobsen's famed, womblike "egg chair" ("You want to sit back protected...
...compact women's college down Garden St. fits neatly into the 3600 series on the Harvard number, requiring only three extensions on the 3000 series to accommodate all its offices. President Bunting's extension has for example, bee changed from...
Lean Staffs. The compact, single-plant companies, many of them years older than the giants, also pride themselves on being more flexible, can quickly change their product mix to accommodate special orders. "We can cook steel to order in 20 minutes," says Vice President Grady L. Roark of Chicago's Acme Steel. With lean executive staffs, the smaller companies can also reorganize in a hurry to combat tough times. Delaware's long-ailing Phoenix Steel has been revamped in 19 months by new President Stanley Kirk, who has turned red ink to black by cutting the production force...
...compact companies also have special problems, are more vulnerable to competitive setbacks than their big brothers. Like many other small firms, Northwestern Steel and Wire of Sterling, III., is feeling a profit pinch because scrap prices have jumped sharply in the past few months. A surge of imports of barbed wire and nails has hurt Peoria's Keystone Steel, which specializes in those products. Some small steelmen complain that they have difficulty borrowing to expand and modernize, since bankers tend to favor the larger firms. But the small ones often manage to be more daring than the conservative giants...