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...sour sense that such is not always the case -although others may argue that the reforms simply did not go far enough. In any case, the Journal, more in the spirit of 18th century toryism, will now use such words as revision and change -a more neutral vocabulary. Oliver Goldsmith caught the spirit with his couplet in The Traveller...
Northeastern's team is a mixture of freshmen--Harvard cannot use frosh in varsity meets--and veterans. Top veterans include captain Jim Crowley. Bill Goldsmith and Nick Rowe, Rowe ran very well last year and is considered Northeastern's top runner as well as one of New England's finest...
...James Goldsmith, 39, is a true multinational man. Born in Paris of a British father and a French mother, he speaks both languages fluently, divides his time between homes in England and France, and holds passports of both nations. Goldsmith's $1.4 billion-a-year Cavenham Foods empire-Europe's third largest food processor after Unilever and Nestlé-also straddles the English Channel...
...started cooking up his empire of edibles in 1965, when he catered to both the sweet tooth and the weight-consciousness of Britons by forming Cavenham Foods as a diversified maker of candy and diet products. Following the recipes of Jim Slater and other British takeover specialists, Goldsmith began buying troubled foodmakers and selling off their undervalued surplus assets. He surprised British financiers by buying Bovril, maker of Britain's best-known beef extract, for $50 million in June 1971. Since then the price of Cavenham shares has tripled...
...Goldsmith claims to have learned the art of management from the mistakes of U.S. multinationals. "Americans tended to look at Europe as a single market, but that is an oversimplification," he says. "When it comes to food, every market has totally different tastes." He tells French cheesemakers to forget about trying to sell their Camembert and Pont-l'Evêque in Britain, and learn how to make the Cheddars and Stiltons favored by British palates. Goldsmith also avoids what he sees as the pitfall of American-style conglomeration by keeping the bulk of his expansion in the food...