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...problem of price cuts v. production cuts is not a simple, either/or proposition. There are many other ways to counteract falling sales, among them the introduction of new or improved products, harder selling, more advertising, a switch to lower-priced lines. A manufacturer of lipstick cases, for instance, can substitute steel for more expensive brass in his product; a TV-set maker can concentrate on table models; a chemical producer can cut back some products while pushing others...
...Senatorial attacks on the Russian Research Center under the banner HARVARD STUDY OF RUSSIA CALLED INSANE-COSTS U. S. $450,000. For three days, the front page emphasized the attack, quoting Senators like McClellan saying things like "If the army, navy and defense departments do not know how to counteract Soviet propaganda without hiring a bunch of college professors, this defense establishment is in darn bad shape in my opinion." Such quotes were not published in other papers, indicating Kelso had obtained them on his own. The Research Center's side of the story was not published in the Post...
...internal use only,⅓ Pusey of Harvard for faith concept, ⅓ Nevins of Columbia for history concept and ⅓Fairless of Pittsburgh for intestinal fortitude concept. If taken regularly by nation, it will quickly counteract present epidemic of opportunism, chauvinism, greed, self-interest, hypocrisy and larceny...
...life," he said much later, "has been aimed at one goal only: to infer or to guess how the mental apparatus is constructed and what forces interplay and counteract in it." But he began, like any other laboratory neurology student of his day, by dissecting the spines of eels and the nerve fibers of crayfish...
...counteract such competition in detergents, Neil McElroy last week was test-marketing a whole list of new products: Lana, a home permanent for bleached or frizzled hair; Fluffo, a new shortening to compete with P. & G.'s famed Crisco; Gleem, a new toothpaste "for people who can't brush after every meal" (P. & G. is sure that includes just about everybody); Zest, a detergent bar for baths and showers...