Word: disap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pride v. Efficiency. Actually, Barreiros had had little control of the firm for some time. After the first disap pointing year of partnership, when car output was barely half of his overly optimistic goal of 92,000, Chrysler invested another $20.5 million to save the enterprise from caving in. In 1967, Chrysler raised its interest in the company to 77%. Barreiros was still president-and his brothers Valeriano, Graciliano and Celso were all members of the management group-but his family had only a minority voice. Unmistakably, Chrysler then started running the company through its own efficiency-minded...
...those riches, however, the life of King Saud ibn Abdul Aziz al Fais al al Saud was poor in many of the things which the world's more ordinary people set store by. His health was bad. His favorite sons proved disap pointing and profligate. Like many exorbitantly rich men, he was gnawed at times by doubts as to the sincerity of his professed friends. He ruled Saudi Arabia for only eleven of his 67 years, then was forced by his own brother to surrender the throne. Born in exile in Kuwait, where his parents had taken refuge from...
...embarrassed men could have climbed the truck's hoist and disap peared with the garbage, but Lindsay had no reproofs. "Come on," he said simply. "Let's clean up the city." In his own way -which involves paying personal attention to New York's trash as well as its panache -Republican John Lindsay has been trying to clean up his city since he took on the mayoralty just a year ago. The results are certainly not all that he hoped, nor all that the city expected. But the effort is quite a sight...
...political advancement is tied. True democracy in the Western sense may not be on the horizon, for Franco believes - and many of his enemies agree - that Spaniards are so strong-willed that they need a firm hand to keep them in line. The fear is that if Franco disap pears before he has put his house in order, the social fabric of Spain will be stretched to its limit - or beyond - by the struggle for power that might follow...
Maazel is among the very few Americans who rank Maazel that high but his appreciation of himself is widely shared in Europe where, in the past few years, he has conducted more orchestras than most people could shake a stick at. He disap peared from American music in 1945 after six years as Little Lorin, the boy won der. Adolescence- its fuzzy cheeks and squeaky voice- had done him in -"I lost my market value as soon as I ceased to be a monstrosity." Sobering up in Pitts burgh, he studied hard, learned the vio lin, became a linguist...