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...supply the entire world's demand for seven months. Its known reserves are worth $90 billion at current prices. By automating whenever possible, Aramco in the past ten years has doubled output while reducing its payroll nearly 50% and sharply cutting production costs. This amazingly successful and discreet company is doing better and better. On last year's sales of $1 billion, Aramco made a princely profit of $762 million. That was split fifty-fifty between the Saudi government and Aramco's four U.S. parents: California Standard, which owns 30%, Jersey Standard (30%), Texaco (30%) and Socony...
Taking advantage of this feeling, the discreet monthly "presidents' clubs" that control the three zaibatsu giants have stepped up their efforts to coordinate more closely the activities of the old zaibatsu elements still on their own. They consider it wasteful, for one thing, that Mitsui alone still has four competing chemical companies within its loose empire. A 1947 antitrust law passed by the Japanese government at the insistence of the U.S. Occupation authorities (and softened by later amendments) seems to be no obstacle; after all, it has not stopped the zaibatsu. Still, there are other problems, such...
...private papers of several key figures in his drama, most notably the unpublished diaries of Frances Stevenson, who was Lloyd George's secretary, later his wife, and for many years his closest confidante. Though Beaverbrook describes Miss Stevenson's diaries as "a startling political document," his discreet excerpts give no hint of Lloyd George's notorious amatory adventures...
...Rockefeller's first wife, Mary Todhunter Clark Rockefeller, Governor Rockefeller's second wife, Margaretta Fitler Murphy Rockefeller, Mr. Nixon's only wife Pat, his children, their dog, some of Governor Rockefeller's children, all of the second Mrs. Rockefeller's children, and the most discreet elevator operator on Fifth Avenue...
...above case, the misuse of numbers pinpoints the inadequacy of any model that describes the two elements of the initial set as rational and discreet. Clearly the elements of such sets are often irrational--and consequently indiscreet...