Word: grave
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sense of timing is as acute as ever-and that he will probably win another mandate. "Smith still sees himself as the man who can save the position of the whites in a black-ruled country," says one politician. "If you know Smith, he wants to rule from the grave...
Guido Carli, the former governor of the Bank of Italy who now heads the Italian Confederation of Industry, openly forecasts "an era when private industry is no longer able to make a profit." In West Germany, Kurt Richebacher, chief economist of the Dresdner Bank, speaks of "a grave profitability crisis." In Belgium, Baron Leon Lambert, chairman of the Compagnie Bruxelles Lambert, flatly declares that European regimes are "impotent before the enormousness of the political, economic and social problems that confront...
...five days. You can be in business six months earlier here than in Germany." Unit production costs, according to Mueller, are 5% to 7% lower in Spartanburg than in West Germany, while fringe benefits for the young, unskilled, nonunionized workers are not at all comparable to the cradle-to-grave cosseting of the European worker. Mueller, who raises a few cattle on the side, has found the economics of building textile machinery in the Bible Belt so favorable that he has been able to develop an export business. One of his customers: the Soviet Union...
...bishop. But Neumann's quiet spiritual stamina appealed to Francis Kenrick, who had left Philadelphia to become Archbishop of Baltimore. When Neumann heard that Kenrick was recommending him as his successor in Philadelphia, he beseeched nuns to pray against such an appointment, which he considered "a grave calamity for the church...
...Accent grave...