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...Senate committee to cover up the payments, which were made by a division Miller supervised before he became the company's chairman in 1974. Second, the SEC alleges Textron often overbilled customers, remitting them the difference under the table. Finally, the SEC charges Textron with spending $600,000 to "entertain" Defense Department employees illicitly and without normal substantiation in company records...
...challenge, says Holmes, is "to present statistics as a visual idea rather than a tedious parade of numbers. Without being frivolous, I want to entertain the reader as well as inform him." In some cases, the very curves of plotted statistics suggest an image. Thus the lines on this week's Business graph tracing OPEC's contribution to inflation became the band of an Arab headdress. "I have to be careful to choose the right symbols," he says...
Harvard must win one of the two relays, preferably the first, the medley, and take at least five of the individual firsts to entertain serious thoughts of an upset. Most important, the Crimson must take a majority of the crucial seconds and thirds that often decide the outcome of a close meet...
Which brings us back to the Harvard-Princeton meet. Shaving was a necessity for Princeton if they were to entertain serious thoughts of an upset. Why do it now, though, if the Easterns, the championship for which almost everyone from the Eastern League "saves their shave," is only four weeks away...
...long-range planning. A Congressman has a two-year horizon, the U.S. President four. You put a head man in a company for only four years, and he won't do anything. He's only interested in having good results for those four years. He'll entertain no research, no development programs that won't pay off for eight or ten years. All top executives ought to be fairly young when they are elected, to be given a shot at really doing something...