Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GENERAL MOTORS' Futurama suffers in comparison with its famed 1939 exhibit. The reason perhaps is that the future has come upon us so hard and so fast that the once-incredible magic of what's next now seems all too believable...
...observation tower, the symbol of the city's growth. Osaka's myriad restaurants are noted for their epicurean meals-and it is just as well. The new trains from Tokyo carry buffet stalls but no dining car. Reason: the railway claims that its trains go too fast to leave time for full-course dinners...
Cornflakes & Consortiums. The powerful lure for American companies is the vast sales potential abroad, where the market is growing generally twice as fast as it is in the U.S. Many U.S. firms have a healthy cash surplus that they want to put to work, as well as the growing feeling that it is both prestigious and profitable to go international. About three-fourths of new U.S. investment money goes to Canada, Western Europe and the other developed countries, where the risks are least and the markets best. (Latin America and Africa are currently out of favor.) U.S. investments represent...
...farm machinery. Many experts feel that the tide of U.S. investment in Europe has reached its peak, and is due to level off and eventually fall. That may happen, but U.S. companies are still welcomed into hundreds of industries in Europe-and are still moving in fast. Even if the tide does gradually recede, there are countless opportunities for U.S. investment in whole areas of the world that are anxious to make an acquaintance with U.S. products and know...
...loud self-congratulation, her compulsive camaraderie is lavished on clerks and big shots alike, her flattery is as subtle as an uppercut. Mama's venom kills, but not so swiftly as her hot, Oedipal affection. "Come," she wheedles Joseph. "I just made a lap. Come over here fast and I'll be your social life...