Word: cults
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sergei Mironovich Kirov, secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, was assassinated in Leningrad. It was this event that Stalin chose to use as the excuse to rid himself of all potential opposition-real and imagined-and to inflict the cult of terror that would ensure his dictatorship...
...paid for the acquired company, with a minimum of 1 % for all amounts in excess of $3,000,000. The outlook for the merger brokers is bright, for as Strathclyde University Professor K. J. Alexander puts it: "The curse of bigness has now been replaced by the cult of bigness." Consolidating the big, unwieldy corporations is only a start. England is still a country of almost cottage-size businesses whose copycat ways add little to the economy. A case in point: 48 manufacturers of electric blankets, pads and bed warmers produce 242 different models, and none of them makes much...
Police later arrested three Negroes: Donald Ramsey, 26, who wears the fez of the Yoruba sect, a Black Nationalist cult, and whose apartment on the fifth floor of the murder building is decorated with Black Power posters; Thomas Dennis, also 26, a pot-smoking wino who hung out on the hippie fringe and proclaimed a code of racial violence; and Fred Wright, 31, assistant janitor in the building who lived in a small room just off the cellar, and who was held on "related" charges of raping and robbing another hippie girl just hours before the slayings. Wright was reputed...
...course. The Israelis don't make heros of their warriors. In a country where everyone serves, and war has been a fact of life for 19 years, a martial cult has no meaning...
...nostrils"). With his 96% stockholding, he runs Cope Allman with a spare, 25-man head-office staff "because I dislike middle management and all that sort of thing," likes to make patriarchal, publicity-grabbing visits to the firm's 15,000 worldwide employees. He frankly favors a personality cult as good management policy, "as long as the personality doesn't get too far from the cult...