Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Realizing that 120 newspapers in Paris and the French provinces are not enough to finance A.F.P.'s worldwide operations, Marin is conscious of the need to expand abroad. Toughest market to crack thus far has been the Anglo-American press. This year A.F.P. at least got its foot in the door when both the New York Times and the Times of London joined its growing list of regular subscribers...
...died of consumption at an abominable boarding school, where they had been half starved. At Charlotte's own boarding school, one classmate sized her up as "a little old woman in very old-fashioned clothes." Unfortunately, the classmate said as much to Charlotte, who ever after suffered self-conscious torments over her ugliness, particularly her stunted height...
...most of them share Harold Geneen's distaste for the term. After all, says Ralph Ablon, who has built his Ogden Corp. into a far-reaching (shipbuilding, metals, processed foods) conglomerate, the word connotes a company with "no unity, no purpose and no design."* To most image-conscious companies, the real conglomerates are thus the operations of men like Victor Muscat, a Manhattan-based entrepreneur whose corporate acquisitions generally follow no visible pattern, come after bitter takeover fights, and result in little in the way of new management initiatives...
...stir the Bluhdorns and Thorntons have caused in financial circles, the public at large, says Yale Historian John Morton Blum, is "conscious of a soup company, but not of a conglomerate." To remedy that, Textron, once a confederation of textile companies, is running ads making the point that the company now makes almost everything but textiles. "Think you've got Textron down pat?" the ads read. "What about electronic systems, golf carts, helicopters, chain saws?" Another company troubled by anonymity is Harold Geneen's ITT. "You can stop 15 people in the street and not one will know...
...into the vacuum after 1945 precipitated years of struggle to restore the balance. As Halle sees it, the Allies largely had themselves to blame. "It would have been better in the two World Wars," he writes, "if the restoration of a balance of power had been the victors' conscious and proclaimed objective. They would then, one supposes, have seen that it was essential to avoid the complete destruction of the defeated enemy's power, since that power would be needed in the postwar balance." But with Germany prostrate and the Allies in bad shape, the rapid postwar withdrawal...