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...Empire. Attlee also did what his old rival Churchill had refused to do: preside over the dissolution of the British Empire. While his Cabinet argued over what to do about the independence demands of India, Burma and Ceylon, Attlee broke in with his answer: get out. His decision to depart rather than delay avoided ugly anti-British insurrections and enabled him to incorporate all of the former Asian possessions except Burma into the Commonwealth. The cold war, however, put a chill on many of Attlee's plans. He diverted welfare funds to armaments to help block the Soviet threat...
Looking forward to his 83rd birth day next month - and backward on a 65-year career in merchandising - the chairman of the U.S.'s largest depart ment store group announced last week that he was relinquishing his title. Fred Lazarus Jr. turned full command over to Son Ralph, 53, and will keep only the honorary assignment of executive committee chairman of Federated Department Stores Inc. The man succeed ing Ralph as president of the Cincinnati-based organization is J. Paul Sticht, 49, a onetimeCampbell Soup Co. executive who joined Federated in 1960 and has been serving as a vice...
...singular and well-observed feature of war is for the view in retrospect to depart radically from that which attended the beginning. Dangers which at the outset of hostilities seemed to justify the most sanguinary steps in the perspective of years seem slight, sometimes frivolous. And prospects which at the beginning of conflict seemed easy and brilliant come to measure only the depth of the miscalculation. The case of men who in the last 30 years have planned expeditions against Moscow, Pearl Harbor and Pusan--not to mention Jerusalem and Tel Aviv--sufficiently establishes the point...
Daniel Chumley designed the set, so it is he who must be flayed first. He has built a false stage over the real one, and tilted his creation at a 25 degree angle. Actors arrive and depart on long ramps which curve off into the dark. The whole affair suggests a complicated highway interchange...
...analysis essentially assumes that all people participating in the market share equal power and control over decisions they make. For example, an equal relationship between the consumer and the seller is assumed. We learn about how oligopolies use advertising to create wants, but since such firms depart from the competitive model, this does not necessarily bring into question the analyses of the model itself. But what about competitive firms using advertising to create wants? This is discussed in the readings solely in terms of permitting monopolistic price rises through product differentiation. We suggest that such advertising is also...