Word: maximation
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...reinserted into American life with love and ambience-and with food and wine. The fact is that hundreds of classic buildings throughout the U.S. have become thriving restaurants, saved from the wrecker's ball by the diner's thrall. If few of them are likely to match Maxim's in cuisine, they are for the most part good, solid, pleasant places...
...Japanese school boy named Tadao Yoshida ran across a seemingly bland maxim of Andrew Carnegie's, which he remembers as: "Unless you render profit and goodness to others, you cannot prosper." Inspired by it, Yoshida eventually derived his own rule for running a company: one-third of potential profit should be sacrificed in order to hold down prices, another third should be used to help customers with discounts and rebates, and only the final third should be retained as "pure profit...
...attitude toward money swivels wildly. Anjelica just got a Mercedes for her 23rd birthday. According to Mike Nichols, Nicholson always has "several thousand bucks out" to help friends over some rough spots. But Roman Polanski says that at other times Nicholson is "stingier than W.C. Fields." Once at Maxim's, Nicholson fought for and won the $600 check. When he found that one of his dinner companions could have taken care of the bill as a business expense, he was miserable...
...tory ? the crucial "heroic" role played by men like Marx himself, and Lenin and Stalin. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. suggests that "men have lived who did what no substitute could ever have done; their intervention set history on one path rather than another. If this is so, the old maxim There are no indispensable men' would seem another amiable fallacy. There is, then, a case for heroes...
...such an understanding among officials could not be guaranteed to withstand pressure from post-Watergate public opinion, especially with trials of former presidential aides still pending. Beyond that, there is the simple maxim of never confronting today what can be put off until tomorrow. In law, delay is generally thought to favor a defendant. From a pocketbook point of view, that is particularly true for Nixon, since as President he has access to the kind of legal advice that would cost in six figures if he had to seek it privately...