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...state ownership of enterprise has spread, a new kind of tycoon has risen to head Italy's major corporations -outstanding economists or financiers who have spent all or most of their careers in government employ. Under these men, the state-run firms operate with little of the bureaucratic bumbling and political waffling that afflicts nationalized industry in other countries. In Italy, state managers combine the prudence of the civil servant and the dash of the entrepreneur with chilling effectiveness. Usually indifferent to the trappings of authority and the dazzle of the spotlight, they nonetheless wield enormous power-often greater...
Schmidt also indicated that Harvard may be able to employ other displaced Continental employees...
...controlled. His arms waved through the air like a swimmer like a discus thrower in slow motion. The words "let's not," fairer sounding in Russian than in English, are repeated throughout the poem. Writing poems for the public arena necessarily affects the poet's style. He will employ the devices and genres that best lend themselves to lyricism and incantation. The formal qualities of poetry become subject to dramatic techniques. Yevtushenko's art, such as it is, is shaped by these factors. The sound of "let's not" gave me the auditory vision of a flake of snow swaying...
...than that," he told me, and set out methodically to build the world's best steamer. He and I went to California Institute of Technology and conferred with Dr. Robert Millikan,* its president and the 1923 Nobel Prizewinner in physics. Hughes told Dr. Millikan that he wanted to employ two of his brightest engineering graduates, men with creative imagination. Dr. Millikan recommended two young men, named Burns and Lewis...
Regan is now looking for new worlds to conquer. Says he: "We are studying ways that Merrill Lynch might employ life insurance. And obviously estate planning is another possibility. Then there is real estate development." Whatever new directions the company may take, it is now clear that Merrill Lynch, long regarded as the supermarket of the investment business, is close to becoming Wall Street's first one-stop shopping center...