Word: fonds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sears." Inside the company, Cushman is not so reticent. Unlike retired Predecessor Charles H. Kellstadt, whose job he took over two years ago, Cushman delegates responsibility liberally and treats subordinates genially, but keeps a cold eye on profit and loss reports. "Men, merchandise, methods and money," he is fond of saying, "are the four Ms of Sears. Men come first...
Pride & Potentates. Sound in conception, the idea has often proved severely flawed in execution. The U.S. now doles out economic aid to 100-odd nations in an often unselective, incoherent program that Congressmen are fond of calling a boondoggle. Instead of paying for development, countless U.S. aid dollars have paid for jet planes to please a foreign potentate, or uneconomic steel mills to satisfy a new nation's sense of pride...
...tragedy of Emma Lavinia Gifford, as she repeatedly confided to her diary, was that she married a man beneath her. He was a writer of sorts, but so was she; and when callers such as Ford Madox Ford and Sir Edmund Gosse dropped around, she was fond of pulling out her poems and rattling off lines like these...
...celebrated vines that grow over 200 chalky acres of Château Lafite-Rothschild produce a grand cru that is the pride of Guy, Elie, Alain and Edmond. Next door, at his Château Mouton Rothschild, Philippe wages a battle for oenological equality with his fond cousins and competitors, trying to persuade the French government's wine agency to revise its official 1855 wine classification, which listed Mouton slightly below Lafite. Philippe has commissioned, among others, Cocteau, Braque, Dali and Lippold to design labels for his Mouton Rothschild...
Britain's ailing textile industry boasts many prestigious names, among them the knights and right honorables that British companies are so fond of. But the name that currently causes the biggest stir is that of Joe Hyman. Organizing a small rayon-finishing company only six years ago, Manchester-born Joe Hyman steadily enlarged it through acquisitions, eventually merged with illustrious 180-year-old William Hollins & Co. Ltd., and himself emerged as Rollins' chairman and chief executive. Last week Hollins - renamed Viyella International Ltd. to capitalize on the fame of its lamb's-wool-and-cotton Viyella fabric...