Word: owes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other than to propagate, project or proclaim something. What else can he do? And if he is a truly great artist, this something will be of fundamental value and meaning to all peoples, at all times, and in all places. Baldwin is such an artist and we owe him far more than Cowan is willing to grant
Norway's Owe...
Hunting for executive talent, state-run companies often raid private industry. When Norway after the war determined to expand an aluminum plant that the German occupiers had built, the government sought the services of slender Aage Owe (pronounced Oh-veh), the chief of a privately owned margarine monopoly. Engineer Owe accepted the presidency of the firm-which became known simply as The Aluminum Co.-only after he won the right to hire his own staff ("I wanted to have the same advantages as my privately owned competitors. I didn't want state bureaucrats...
Plowing all the profits into modernization instead of paying dividends as some politicians wish, Owe, who is now 68, has increased yearly sales to $53 million and production to 160,000 tons. That is twice the combined output of Norway's four private aluminum companies-and almost all of it is exported to bring in much-needed foreign exchange...
These often owe no loyalty to any elected official. Peabody note, although they spend millions of dollars annually. They also pay off governors against the legislature and may slip from effective control altogether...