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...sure, GEICO is emerging from its ordeal much smaller and poorer than in 1974, when it was the nation's fifth largest auto insurer, collecting premium income of $660 million-and when its stock sold as high as $61 a share. The company had reached that eminence by doing away with agents and selling policies directly to customers at premium rates as much as 25% below those charged by other insurers. The strategy worked because for a long time GEICO restricted its customers to employees of federal, state and local governments, and later to professional people-two low-risk...
...Vandenberg and Marshall, Acheson and Dulles−built a national consensus for responsible American world leadership based on both principle and pragmatism. The recovery of Western Europe and Japan, the creation of peacetime alliances, the shaping of the global trade and monetary system, the economic advance of newer and poorer nations, the measures to control the nuclear arms race−these constitute an enduring record of American statesmanship...
...spent 18 years in South Korea and I know from friends that little has changed since I left except that the government is more restrictive, the wealthy wealthier and the poor poorer...
depoliticized text of Prisoner which has been reproduced in Genius and Lust makes an even poorer showing against the body of elastic and informative, if not exceptionally original, criticism presented.) You suspect that although the critic recognizes the injury in sexism, he can't bring himself to take it too much to heart. Rather than go through the motions of confronting this aspect of Miller's work, he scrupulously ignores it. The women's liberation movement long ago slung the albatross of sexism around Mailer's own neck, and he must have considered that intentionally reconjuring its specter in this...
...expanding domestic production and relying less on imports, the world's poorer countries may achieve a trade balance and may boost production to "provide them with exactly what they need," Leontief said...