Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sage of Concord tuned his inner ear to the faint, sweet sounds that issued from his Transcendental trees and rocks. If he could hear sky-born music wherever he went, his friends and neighbors were less fortunate; they had to depend on the uncertain efforts of a handful of local groups, supplemented by occasional trips to Boston. In null century Concord, New Englanders do not find themselves so hampered-and Emerson would scarcely be left in peace to do his ethereal listening. Today's American, let him go where'er he will, hears the sound of music still...
...control 90% of the business). The New York management outfits now give their clients a choice of 617 attractions, including 96 sopranos, 42 tenors, 101 pianists, 50 violinists, 65 instrumental ensembles, 47 vocal ensembles, four harpists, one marimbist and an assortment of special acts. Many younger artists use the local concert circuit to pick up experience, but many of the big names no longer want to tour widely. As a result, the big-time virtuoso recital is going out of vogue, and most communities want a group ranging from the Black Watch to the Juilliard String Quartet. This year there...
Money-Sucking Sands. On his way to India, Graham not only picked up two more $100 checks from pilots in midair, but planted some free-enterprise seeds along the way. In Athens he left $10,000 with a committee of bankers for local loans, another $6,200 in Istanbul and $10,000 in Beirut. Already approved are loans to a Greek furniture company, a Turkish spring-clip factory, a Lebanese cement contracting business. He landed in India with $220,000 left in hand and a lot more enterprise in mind...
MONETARY CRISIS in Philippines will pinch Americans doing business there. To stop drain on dollar reserves, now at alltime low of $145 million, Philippine government has told U.S. subsidiaries that they may not send their dollar profits back home. And to check big imports, Manila now demands that local businessmen deposit 50% to 200% of value of their imports in advance...
Once a problem drinker is spotted, he usually gets a heart-to-heart talk from his supervisor or from a member of the firm's counseling staff, who refers him to the plant's doctor, local clinics or rehabilitation groups. Most programs are voluntary, but a worker who refuses help leaves the.company little choice but to discipline him by short layoffs or eventually fire him. Says an executive of California's General Petroleum Co.: "We're inclined to treat alcoholism as an illness, but if a man won't help himself, we have to dismiss...