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Dunlop-Pirelli is a textbook case of comparative advantage. Of the 26 countries in which one or the other makes tires, they overlap only in Britain and Germany. The two chief executives -Geddes and Leopoldo Pirelli-are also a good match. Both are somewhat reserved and prone to understatement, and both have ancestral ties to their companies. Geddes' father was once chairman of Dunlop, and Leopoldo Pirelli is a member of the third generation of his family to run his company. Multinational management can present gummy problems, but Dunlop and Pirelli are determined to make...
EAMES' discoveries overlap the realms of science and art. Even he can only describe one in terms of the other...
...difficulties not only with radio, but with television and record companies, as well. Before doing the album with Spector, Ike had signed and recorded with around five or six other labels. There was great inconsistency in quality, much overlap in material, and generally poor promotion. Television, meanwhile, feared that the public couldn't digest the sexual overtones of Ike and Tina's music. (Their image was a bit raunchier than it now, particularly after Tina discovered see-through apparel in Paris.) When Shindig considered them for a show, the head of ABC said No, Tina was too wild-although...
...W.C.C. explains that its money will go for welfare, not warfare, though Director of Communications Albert van den Heuvel admits that "these two aspects may sometimes overlap." He says that the W.C.C. is not endorsing revolutionary violence, but it no longer rules out aid to "antiracist organizations." In recent years, many liberal Protestants have been moving in two directions at once. Despite their growing opposition to the use of American arms in Viet Nam, they have come to accept violence when used by "oppressed peoples." Thus the grants should have come as no surprise. Last year a W.C.C. sponsored conference...
Eames' discoveries overlap the realms of science and art. Even he can only describe one in terms of the other...