Word: horning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...punching out notes and laying out funky phrases like "the mathematical guitar genius" Bob Dylan used to say he was. Levon Helm approaches his drums with what is, in rock music, unparalleled subtlety and restraint. On bass, Rick Danko occasionally puffs his cheeks as if he were playing a horn. At the piano, Richard Manuel looks like a teen-ager masquerading as a pirate...
Stunted by Success. Growth seems stunted by past success, company policy and the Justice Department. Du Pont's old flair for turning the test tube into a horn of plenty made it the 15th largest industrial company in the U.S., with $3.5 billion in sales in 1968. From this lofty level, Du Pont finds it nearly impossible to match past expansion. Sales almost trebled in the 1940s and doubled in the 1950s, but in the decade now ending, they have climbed only about 60%. Overseas, where 1968 sales were $440 million and just starting to be profitable, Du Pont...