Word: kept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five years the idea was kept in mothballs. Then in 1965 Mayor Daniel J. Hayes wrote a long letter to President Pusey and James R. Killian Jr., Chairman of the Corporation of M.I.T. Hayes told them that the two institutions were living in Cambridge, contributing nothing to the community but some pressure on the city's housing problems...
...used to being alone, and I don't think I changed my views about the war because they were unpopular." But, Sloan remembers, his friends patiently prodded him into rethinking the issues. "Then I read Mary McCarthy and found that her reporting was accurate and analysis valid. I kept asking myself why I hadn't seen through the situation earlier...
...started paying "partnership benefits" to all. With no common shares issued, about half the profits are paid out annually in bonuses and nonvoting shares to em ployees, amounting to about 15% of their salaries. Through councils in each store and a company-wide central council, a dialogue is kept going between management and "partners." The company also spends some $500,000 a year on cultural subsidies (half-price tickets to Covent Garden and the Old Vic) and such perks as clubs (30, from gardening to judo) and low-cost holidays in the company-owned Brownsea Castle at Poole Harbor...
...that because the car is designed to use existing auto components, it could be mass-produced at a cost of $1,600. HUD ultimately envisions an urban transportation concept under which commuters would pay a fee to join a vast minicar pool, get to and from work in cars kept at central lots, which during the working day would supply idle cars to other pool members...
Refund the Difference. Sir Bernard took over in 1955, expanded operations, notably by opening 15 supermarkets, but kept to the company motto, "Never knowingly undersold." Any customer who finds an item he bought at John Lewis selling for less elsewhere can get a refund of the difference. In line with its low-price policy, John Lewis has fought retail price fixing for decades. Only last summer the company had it out with the makers of Cadbury's chocolate, and sweet-toothed Britons gleefully watched the retail price of candy crumble...