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This ruling has been in effect since 1937. The main argument in favor of it is that unless the College forces its students to commit themselves to their theses with some degree of finality, a large number of undergraduates will discard the work after a first, disillusioning contact with the actual problems of thesis-writing...
Opposed to them will be the church's "liberals"-bishops who believe that the church should discard nonessentials that harm its mission, seek to make it, without sacrificing doctrine, more accessible as a home for modern man. Apart from unity-minded Cardinal Bea, the liberals have few friends in the Vatican Curia, but they do include such articulate prelates as Tanganyika's Laurean Cardinal Rugambwa, Utrecht's Bernard Jan Cardinal Alfrink, Montreal's Cardinal Léger, Munich's Julius Cardinal Döpfner, a clear majority of the bishops in France, The Netherlands, Germany...
...wear this in Nova Scotia or you can wear it in Atlanta when the temperature is 107 degrees." Schwartz and his Cornell-educated son Richard, 24, Jonathan Logan's executive vice president, now show new lines in Dallas or Minneapolis before they show in New York, discard models that go over poorly outside Manhattan...
...struggling Stonehaven Hotel in Springfield, Mass. Impressed with the swiftness with which the Stonehaven's earnings responded to rigorous management, they bought more hotels and formed Sheraton Corp. (named after one of their first hotels, which had a costly electric sign that they did not want to discard...
...past nine months alone, Korvette's profits have risen 81% to $4,268,000, and the company's sales in fiscal 1962 will amount to $230 million. All this Ferkauf has accomplished by pursuing a business philosophy that is as old as the Industrial Revolution: discard costly frills, use low prices to lure customers, and make up for low profit margins with high volume. Familiar as this philosophy is (and a lot of people are working at it), it takes acumen to practice. By succeeding at it in the sluggish 1960s, Eugene Ferkauf has seized the lead...