Word: nimbler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Swift's depressing balance sheet is a direct result of deep cuts into the market made by streamlined and strategically located smaller packers, which now number 4,000. As in steel and some other basic industries, the moderately sized companies have proved to be nimbler and more imaginative than some of the hidebound old giants. Medium-sized outfits like Iowa Beef Packers, Inc.-which was listed by FORTUNE among the top ten companies for return on invested capital in 1967-have built their slaughterhouses and packing facilities close to livestock farms. Frequently offering faster deliveries than the larger firms...
...warmth of the play's humor is the lustier for the chill in the air, and Falstaff is almost the nimbler with his fortunes in decline. As in Part I, Eric Berry plays Falstaff with, fine, resourceful gusto; among his playmates, Gerry Jedd's Mistress Quickly, Franklin Cover's Silence and Ray Reinhardt's Pistol are all good, and John Heffernan's Shallow something better. The time-honored comic scenes keep their blend of rust and magic. The royal scenes, full of a rhetoric that needs a humanizing voice, fare a good deal less well...