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...British institutions have been so determinedly middle class as Marks & Spencer. The company's 254 U.K. department stores, which constitute the country's largest retail chain, sell little that is fashionable or chic; instead, their mainstay is lines of inexpensive and respectably dull (though high quality) sweaters, shirts, bras and lingerie. This value-for-money formula has paid off handsomely: M & S's 14 million weekly shoppers give it annual revenues of $1.9 billion and profits of $184 million, both more than four times those of its largest competitor, British Home Stores...
...stakes are enormous. When Ball took over management of the estate at Alfred's death 42 years ago, it was worth $27 million after taxes. Today it is estimated at more than $2 billion. The mainstay of the estate is its rich stock portfolio, which includes 1.1 million shares of General Motors Corp., in which the Du Ponts once had a huge investment, and 702,880 shares of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. itself...
...announced last spring, though, Mobil's arguments took a curious turn. It seemed that Carter wanted to expand the use of coal in industries that had previously used oil, and Mobil got a little bit frightened. While coal was a pleasant sideline for the energy conglomerate, oil was its mainstay; so suddenly and mysteriously Mobil acquired an environmental conscience. In an ad entitled "Musings of an oil person," Mobil questioned the desirability of a switch to coal on the grounds that it raised serious environmental questions, including the problems of strip mining in the West. So Mobil took both sides...
...composition of the search committee stands as a striking example of this attitude. Far too much emphasis, as nearly 40 athletes and many influential alumni have protested, has been given to graduate schools and far too little to the College itself. The mainstay of the University's athletic program is its undergraduate intercollegiate schedule, not the time allotted for graduate students to play. Unless the athletic office emphasizes an intercollegiate program, something the departed applicant Robert Peck apparently would not have favored, athletics may not receive the funds necessary to run a good intramural program. And the search committee, with...
Brown led the staff in pitching last season, posting a 4-3 record and a 3.34 earned run average. Baloff returns after a year's absence. He as a mainstay on the 25-10 squad of 1975. McOsker, a sophomore, saw considerable action during last year's campaign...