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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Council decides to form the executive committee, the group could start operating as early as next fall, Benjamin said...
...Boston Study Group has written a very clear and well researched study of U.S. defense policy. Even those who disagree with them acknowledge the quality of their work. However, I think that to prevent misunderstandings, comments are necessary on two points relating to the book and the articles on it in The Crimson...
First, the impression given by both articles is that military policy is the issue with the Boston Study Group. This is not really true. The basic premise for their study is a foreign policy decision. As they say on the first page of their book, the force structure they envision supports defense of Western Europe, Japan and Israel only, and emphatically eliminates all other conventional capabilities. This is, in essence, a one-war strategy as opposed to the current one-and-a-half-war strategy. Such a reduction in contingencies (33 per cent) explains most...
...most visible part of the Carlson empire is the Radisson Hotel Group, which last year generated revenues of $90 million. There are 19 hotels with a total of 7,139 rooms, and Carlson hopes to expand by 1,000 rooms a year. He opened a resort hotel a year ago in Scottsdale, Ariz., and the Radisson Oasis, built near the Pyramids outside Cairo, will be finished by the end of 1979. Farther afield, Carlson is negotiating with the Chinese to build a hotel in Peking. He has a particularly active period of growth planned for two recently acquired restaurant chains...
...stalwarts among the Carlson groups accounted for almost half of last year's billion-dollar-plus sales. One of them, the catalogue showroom retailing operations, which grossed $216 million, embraces brand-name discount chains that require little in the way of display space, sales help and security personnel because customers order merchandise from catalogues. Thus the companies can undercut many of the big low-price chains like K mart. The other, the Carlson Premium Group, which last year got one-third of its $250 million revenues from Gold Bond Stamps, organizes incentive programs for companies that reward high-achieving...