Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There has been "lots of sick mail," says another of the girls, "lots of it." Susan asks indignantly: "How would you feel if a reporter called your mother at 8 a.m. and asked her whether she approved of her daughter's conduct in spending the night with a group of married...
...group's goal, says Blough, is to achieve "stability" in the construction industry-an obvious euphemism for forming a united front of big corporations to stiffen contractors' resistance to union demands, even at the price of construction delays...
Last week a group of top corporate officials resolved to confess, repent and reform. They formed the Construction Users' Anti-Inflation Roundtable -quickly nicknamed "Roger's Roundtable" because it is headed by Roger M. Blough, retired chairman of U.S. Steel. It includes executives of General Motors, Standard Oil (N.J.), General Electric, Union Carbide...
...acquired World Airways, a charter carrier, and a manufacturer of fire-preventing sprinkler systems. Travellers Corp., owner of Hartford's Travellers Life Insurance Co., is dickering to buy Randolph Computer Corp., a major computer-leasing firm. This month, CNA Financial Corp., the Chicago-based owner of a group of life-and casualty-insurance firms, completed acquisition of The Larwin Group Companies, a California housebuilding combine that took in revenues of $50 million in 1968. Larwin President Lawrence Weinberg and CNA Chairman Howard Reeder began by discussing a $20 million CNA loan to Larwin but wound up negotiating a merger...
...prescribes a return to idealism. That idealism is at times Procrustean and not easy to put into practice, but all of it is refreshing to hear. His program calls not for less central government but for more -and this time with teeth. He would establish a senior civil service group, for example, composed of generalists with ties to no single agency, who would be responsible for providing a "proper centralization of a democratic administrative process." Sloppily written laws, he feels, have been much to blame for the failure of government. Accordingly, he would strengthen congressional control over federal programs...