Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tokyo's universities, the pay scale is so low (roughly $140 to $250 per month) that most professors care more about their moonlighting ventures in business or publishing than their class duties. Lacking any intellectual contact with the faculty, students frequently pour out their frustrations in politics...
Bigger & Faster. Fiat, says Chairman Gianni Agnelli, owes its success to "a policy of production most suitable to the situation." What he means is that when the Italian economy was in low gear, Fiat built small cars-robust, versatile, economic. But since its 1964 slump, the economy has been picking up speed, and now Fiat is too. Its cars are getting bigger and faster. Tiny, 500 cc. to 600 cc. "Mickey Mouse" models are giving way to huskier, 1,000 cc. to 1,500 cc. sedans that now account for 34% of production. And demand for the bigger, more powerful...
Others besides Fiat are trying to sell them what they want. Common Market tariff reductions have brought increasing competition from abroad, and now Fiat, for the first time, is about to be challenged by an Italian firm. State-owned Alfa Romeo, which has decided to produce low-priced, medium-sized cars, is building a plant called Alfa Sud near Naples; it expects to turn out 300,000 cars annually...
...type that he draws up a written budget of time to be allotted to his wife, his three children and his business. It was only natural that just before leaving school, he drew up a list of cities in which he might like to practice corporate law. Detroit was low on the list because its "environment" was poor. But its law firms were first-rate, and eventually Parsons managed to convince himself that Detroit was his city. He joined a firm there that put him to work on the affairs of its biggest client, the Detroit Bank & Trust...
Lester's first film (in 1959) was a much-praised Sellers' short called The Running, Jumping and Standing Still Film, which won an Oscar nomination. Lester was then given a couple of low-budget potboilers to direct, and moved out into daylight with the two Beatles' extravaganzas, which gave the impression of being acted on flying trapezes and established Lester's image as the blithe spirit of the surreal. They also made his fame. "When I lie dying," he says, "the Evening Standard will headline BEATLES' DIRECTOR IN DEATH DRAMA...