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...fact. Bokanowski was unlikely to do anything more than fume: he is one of the most pro-U.S. members of De Gaulle's Cabinet and, in any case, both French law and the reciprocal trade agreement between France and the U.S. bar him from doing much to curtail U.S. investment. But his anger rejected a failure on the part of G.M. and Remington to remember that they were operating in France-not the U.S. To Frenchmen, as to many Europeans, ousting a man from his job is almost as serious as exiling him from his country. What really...
...near the gate. There can be too much fuss over details, an insistence on exact procedure and an overemphasis on the appearance (as opposed to the reality) of competence. In general, the female trend is toward economy and financial caution. Faced with a recession, the female corporation hastens to curtail expenditure and reduce the dividend." Recognizing the difference, says Parkinson, can be vital to an aspiring executive...
...March, three electric companies-Westinghouse, General Electric and Sylvania*#151;were ready to buy 5,000,000 lbs. of tungsten from the stockpile at market prices to use in making lamps to fill a Government contract. But the Interior Department vetoed the sale on the ground that it would curtail demand. Result: one of the companies had to buy its tungsten abroad, thus adding to the balance-of-payments deficit. Though the stockpile objective for tungsten is 50 million Ibs., the Government is now stuck with more than three times that amount...
Although fun-loving undergrads will still have to curtail their dancing by midnight on Saturday, other provisions to liberalize Massachusetts' restrictive Blue Laws were approved without dissent yesterday by the House Committee on Mercantile Affairs...
...Soviet Russia," Professor D.F. Fleming has addressed The Cold War and Its Origins.> Here, the Vanderbilt University specialist in international relations shows the Western assessment of guilt to be inadequate, based on false premises and conclusions, and all too suited to the nuclear build-up we wish to curtail...