Word: parente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nicolin sold off unprofitable operations, reorganized divisions along product lines, reduced costly inventories and held back on hirings in order to reduce the white-collar staff by 8.2%. Result: the parent company's profits nearly doubled in two years. While accomplishing this, Nicolin was also lent out temporarily by the Wallenbergs to become president of the sick Scandinavian Airlines System. Using the same management techniques that were working at ASEA, he almost immediately cut SAS's losses of $193,000 a day. After nine months at SAS, he returned to ASEA, leaving behind an airline so revitalized that...
...indeed, which supports a surging lope among New York's parents that "maybe this Dr. Gross really can save he schools." Gross himself says: "I can't claim I've done a damn thing, really, but I see the potential for getting a lot done. This town is full of great teachers who deserve recognition. It could have a really efficient and powerful school system. What I want is to get things to a point where a parent can't ake his child out blithely. I want him to lave to think mighty hard about what...
Scheffler applauded Conant's recommendation that courses in "foundations of education" be tied more closely to parent academic disciplines, like history and philosophy, and said that he and other Ed School professors are already making this connection in their courses...
Strategic Outposts. Cargill will have a major part of it, is already active in the East-West grain trade. Its Canadian subsidiary has signed up for 20% of Canada's $500 million wheat sale to Russia, and the U.S. parent is awaiting an export license to send $6,500,000 worth to Hungary. In the U.S. transaction with Russia, Cargill will dicker privately and separately with the Soviets, as will such other big dealers as Continental Grain Co., Bunge Corp. and Louis Dreyfus Corp. Cargill will then draw part of the wheat from its grain elevators (total capacity...
Unfortunately, the Williamses flourish the needle of humor without jabbing it into any rich vein of comedy. An artificial drawing-room comedy can nurture an earthy home truth. But To Love spouts more poppycock about the parent-child relationship and child rearing than has been heard since Bertrand Russell ran a school where boys and girls played together in the nude. Elegantly gowned by Parisian couturiers, Claudette Colbert, who seems to have a dimple in her voice, whips herself into an understandable motherly and wifely froth. As the son, Robert Drivas is a personable rebel. The evening belongs to Cyril...