Word: luck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Board-Room Politics. One of Volkswagen's casualties was Rudolf Leiding, 60, who resigned as president last month. The company gave poor health as the reason, but by all appearances, Leiding's main problems were bad luck in sales and some brusque boardroom politics. When he took over the top job at Volkswagen's Wolfsburg headquarters in 1971, Leiding recognized that the basic Beetle, essentially a 1937 design, was steadily losing consumer appeal, and he moved quickly to develop new models to replace it. Unfortunately, the oil crisis and the subsequent economic slowdown hit just as Leiding...
...Good Luck...
...actually saddled. Throughout the play there are wood-notes of despair that provide a counterpoint, hinting that the Millers have within them the same talent for self-destruction as the Tyrones of O'Neill's autobiographical Long Day's Journey Into Night. With bad luck, comforting Mother Essie might become junkie Mary Tyrone; responsible Father Nat could turn into drunken James. These nuances were obviously hidden from O'Neill himself-or he would have undoubtedly hammered them out into the open, thereby robbing the play of its warm and lyrical humor...
...Inflation will at last lessen-with good luck and a bounteous autumn harvest-to an annual rate of between 6% and 7% by year...
...next year's luck should shine...