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...extending mandatory retirement from 65 to 70 will leave less room at the top for aspiring younger people and, some managers fear, could lead to a sclerosis in the executive ranks. Denmark has produced a partial answer to these problems. Nicknamed "decruitment," it involves recycling older middle and top managers to lower-level jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Better Down Than Out | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...from the grasp of Soviet Russia, would convert to freedom of their own accord and renounce all, or important parts, of their power. As long as the Red Army tanks assure the permanence of their reign, they improve their brand image in the eyes of the governed, acquiring a partial legitimacy through concessions to popular aspirations and tinkerings with ideological conformism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Socialism: Trials and Errors | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...have an undisclosed interest in Air Taxi, then I have been deceived. Deception by others should certainly not be the basis for impugning the integrity of innocent parties." Miller and Bell President James Atkins protested that Proxmire was relying on CIA and Defense Department information about Khatemi's partial ownership of Air Taxi that had been unavailable to Textron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: New Defender of the Greenback | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...years fashioning each character and symbol by hand-46,000 pieces in all. When it was completed in 1454, the 150-copy paper edition fetched about 20 guilders (roughly $1,000) apiece; the 35 parchment copies were a little more. Now three of the 48 complete or partial Gutenberg Bibles still known to exist are on the market in New York City. The asking price has been as high as $2.5 million, which is what Rare-Book Dealer Hans P. Kraus tried, unsuccessfully, to get for the Bible he acquired in 1970. But the price for the copies being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Gutenberg Sale | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

Workers in the plant have suffered partial paralysis, nerve and brain disorders, dizziness and blurred vision. In Egypt, where Phosvel was imported, the pesticide has caused the death of some farmers, as well as the decimation of farm animals that came in contact with...

Author: By Andrew P. Buchsbaum, | Title: To the Ends of the Earth: The Spread of Industrial Poisons | 3/8/1978 | See Source »

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