Word: musts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...companies that venture abroad know that they must be ready to deal with all manner of complications involving local pride and pocketbooks.Still, there are few precedents for the problems faced by Arthur G. McKee & Co., a Cleveland engineering firm that does a $154 million-a-year business designing and building industrial plants around the world. Independence-minded employees of the company's subsidiary in Rome, Compagnia Tecnica Industrie Petroli (CTIP), are staging an outright corporate rebellion...
...managerial control, a 30% salary increase, employee profit-sharing and employee participation in company decisions. They have brought in CISL, Italy's powerful Christian Democratic trade union, to represent them, while McKee has the backing of Italy's Confederation of Italian Industry. Somehow, McKee President Merrill Cox must figure out how to regain control of a firm whose employees are its only real assets...
Hard Decisions. The board's proposals must now be approved by the 1,366 members of the exchange and by the Securities and Exchange Commission. And if approval is granted, the exchange must find a way to prevent disruptive takeovers of member firms by speculators, or even by the Mafia. Another problem is that many of the smaller firms will have a hard time selling their securities in competition with the big brokerage houses, and some are likely to fold for lack of capital. The smaller firms, which have relatively high overhead, also stand to be hurt by volume...
...ending to a novel whose main strength is its meticulous reading of psychic signals. The author's thesis is hardly novel, but it cannot be ignored: in a sick society, the roles of madness and sanity are reversed. This society is sick unto disaster, so alternatives must be sought in areas removed from what passes as reason. Lessing may be a flawed prophet, but as witness she is persuasive and disturbing...
That is what Doris Lessing is about -questions, not opinions. She began asking them as a girl growing up in the vast, empty landscape of Rhodesia. Her questions concerned racism, and the answers led her into radical leftism and membership in a Communist group "so pure it must have been blessed by Lenin in his grave." When she moved to England in 1949, at the beginning of her writing career, she was a party member for a few years...