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Back in the mid-1950s, Bulova Watch Co., the nation's biggest watch producer and importer, found itself whipsawed by its competition. On the one hand, more and more Americans were turning to expensive luxury watches, to the detriment of Bulova's essentially medium-priced (average retail cost: $60) line. On the other hand, the U.S. Time Corp., having found a way to anodize the aluminum cases on cheaper watches to make them resemble gold, was carving out a huge, low-price market with its Timex models. As a result, while the total U.S. market increased...
...Paul, on the other hand, declared that property ownership "does not constitute for anyone an absolute and unconditional right. No one is justified in keeping for his exclusive use what he does not need when others lack necessities. The right to property must never be exercised to the detriment of the common good...
Even those who do end up in prison should get far different treatment from that handed out to most of the 426,000 who are now serving time. Too many prisons are grey, forbidding fortresses; some are 100 years old or more. And too many emphasize punishment, to the detriment of rehabilitation. The commission suggests that new prisons should be kept as small as possible. They should have a residential air, and be located near cities and universities, where cooperation with industry and academicians could be easily arranged. At the federal penitentiary at Danbury, Conn., the Dictograph Corp. sponsors...
...have been killed or wounded, they argued, for their courage to be in question. The war in Viet Nam, they said, is different from any other war, and Marshall did not seem to understand that overriding fact. He wanted too much attention paid to purely military matters, to the detriment of a much broader story...
...fight in Korea and, even after that lesson, another large reduction took place when the Eisenhower Administration enunciated the doctrine of massive retaliation. This strategy assumed that any war would quickly become a major nuclear exchange of short duration, and thus assigned big money to nuclear weaponry to the detriment of conventional forces. The threat of nuclear death would prevent overt Communist aggression, went the theory, and the rest would not matter. But it has been the rest-in Viet Nam and elsewhere-that has caused much of the trouble in the past decade. Nuclear weapons not only failed...