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...ever growing influence within China is the special attention that the country's journals and radio broadcasts now give to reporting and analyzing his speeches and interviews. Although no match for the late Great Helmsman as a polished phrasemaker and poet, Teng does have a flair for earthy aphorism. A sampling of quotations by the Vice-Chairman...
...them in endlessly varied combinations, whips them with imaginative advertising and promotion, and winds up selling some $10 billion worth of hopes and dreams each year. It is a bruisingly competitive business that requires little capital to enter but plenty of moxie to survive in. An entrepreneur with creative flair can still rise fast, though that is getting harder all the time, and an established company can go downhill with blinding speed after the founding genius dies (Helena Rubinstein and Max Factor have been absorbed by conglomerates, and are in varying degrees of trouble now). Through all the turmoil...
Certainly offenses have begun to perk up under the new rules. Championships may be won by tightfisted defenses, but the offensive flair that was typical of the old A.F.L. has finally taken lively root in the sport, and this season has already produced 330 more points than last year. Los Angeles Coach Ray Malavasi explains: "The N.F.L. had gotten stereotyped, but the A.F.L. came up with new formations- multiple fronts, multiple coverages, using men in motion -and in the past four or five years, teams have begun to use them...
With the typical pattern of a Harvard comeback effort that falls short and its flair for the unexpected that has framed the Harvard season The Game, in a broad sense, symbolized all that was frustrating about Harvard's 4-4-1 record, its unfulfilled dreams and unsatisfied hopes...
...reason is that large multinational clients need agencies that can supply a broad range of services from ad production to test marketing worldwide. At the same time, there will probably always be a place for the nimble, specialized "boutique" ad shops that live mainly on their creative flair. The losers in the shifting pattern are likely to be the middle-size full-service agencies that are not big enough to compete with the leaders and not agile enough to beat out the small fry. In the future, predicts Interpublic President Philip Geier Jr., "there will be a lot of large...