Word: hardheadedness
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These strong words came this week from the respected, nonprofit American Institute of Management* after a three-month study of G.M.'s published figures. The survey was the idea of A.I.M.'s founder-president, Jackson Martindell, a hardheaded businessman himself, who has been president of Fiduciary Counsel (investment...
To hardheaded businessmen, Territory Rice's plans might sound overoptimistic. U.S. ricemen call the 2? per Ib. figure "unrealistic," strongly doubt that Chase can grow, mill and ship rice for anything like that price, also point out that there is no world rice shortage; many rice-exporting nations have...
Quiet, lanky Henry Heald, a hardheaded defender of academic freedom, has consistently refused to join the furious academic fusillade aimed at congressional investigators; he declared in 1953 that "it is just as inappropriate to issue blanket condemnation of investigating committees as it is for the members of such committees to...
But they are apparently not willing to leave it at that. Last week in Rome, Italy's Foreign Minister Gaetano Martino, waiting to greet a distinguished German visitor, Konrad Adenauer, told of a triumph of toastmanship achieved by the hardheaded, steel-stomached old man on his visit to Moscow...
He was an awkward, hardheaded slugger, willing to take a punch to land one. But when he landed, his opponent usually dropped. Rocky never really bothered to learn how to box; he never really had to. Without losing a fight, he battered his way up through the heavyweight ranks. It...