Word: growing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...persuading Hong Kong immigration officials that he was really the fur-bearing man pictured on his passport. Snorted Sparks last week: "I don't see now why I was in such a hurry." Indeed, it looked as if Sparks's hair would have plenty of time to grow back before he and a dozen other newsmen, comfortably beached in Hong Kong, would actually get into China...
...murdering their victims by plunging their pikes through the palm-leaf walls of village huts. Recently the late Ba Cut's mother reportedly joined the Devil King, bringing with her several hundred of Ba Cut's old followers. The Devil King ordered them to let their beards grow down to their navels, administered an oath during which the newcomers drank one another's blood mixed with rice wine. The peasants' terror increased when red rains (caused by dust particles in the atmosphere) fell in their villages, told each other frantically that the end of the world...
...expansion costs more than most discounters can afford. Even with more and more self-service, Korvette's overhead has risen from 7% of sales in 1951 to around 14% (v. an average 33% for department stores). Korvette and other big discounters have the cash reserves they need to grow, but their smaller brothers do not. Traditionally, the discounters' main credit source has been manufacturers' wholesale distributors, who "carried" discounters through periodic slow periods. Even if the discounter failed, the distributor could rationalize his own loss as advertising for the products. The sagging appliance market has tightened that...
Despite such arguments, there is a strong movement from inside to outside boards. Last year 52% of the publicly owned U.S. corporations polled by the National Industrial Conference Board had boards dominated by outside directors, and the percentage is growing. Partly, the shift is due to widening public ownership of U.S. business. As companies grow bigger and more competitive, the day of the tightly held family corporation is fast disappearing. Says Cleveland Management Consultant Robert Heller: "As companies expand, they have to go into the market for money and then must bring in outside directors to represent the public...
...children and old people is relatively necessitous and nonpostponable; when they make up a greater segment of the total population, the downturns in total consumer buying may be less pronounced." And "population growth minimizes the effects of overexpansion made by business. It doesn't take as long to grow up to excess capacity when population is rising...