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This sort of mentality caused little harm 50 years ago, but it has been the core of a stubborn resistance to change that has caused much of British business to lag behind the rest of the industrialized world. Such is the outspoken concern in Britain today about how business is run that it is taking on the scope of a national debate. Said the Times of London: "The need for a managerial revolution is widely evident, but the cry seems to have been drowned by deluding murmurs of contentment from too many board rooms...
...locked the rest rooms. Other Negroes surged screaming through a motel. During the week 300 people were jailed, a dozen were injured. Mayor Allen hoped to head off worse violence. Said he: "Atlanta will accept no ultimatums and bows to no threats. At the same time, it will not lag in its efforts to ensure all of its citizens their full rights of citizenship...
...need of reform. Christ himself was free of sin; but the continuation of his work, Dopfner pointed out, "has been entrusted to frail, sinful humans." Thus the church has sometimes been guilty of "failing to achieve what God had desired. The presentation of the love of Christ can lag if the church uses the means of power instead of humility, of force instead of service...
Director Mervyn LeRoy lets the pace lag from time to time, but relief is ever nigh. And are the gags still funny? Very, very...
...Administration has already lost any chance of putting a U.S. supersonic into commercial service before the Concorde. Even to put a supersonic into service by 1970, the U.S. must gear up a crash program -and crash programs are notoriously costly and inefficient. The irony of the U.S.'s lag is that if Eisenhower and Kennedy had not clipped the B70 supersonic bomber program, the U.S. would be far in front in the supersonic race, could have adapted a commercial jetliner from the military prototype...