Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spheres of influence menacingly met. No longer. Though the basic postwar pattern remains superimposed across the map of Europe, the nations of Europe on both sides of the Iron Curtain are pulsating with new polarities and priorities, groping in new directions at the same time they increasingly assert their pride in old nationhoods...
...teeth-and followed orders. Last Jimenez' average plummeted 20 points, and he did not hit a single home run. Bauer, gratefully, had long since left. There were still two days to go in the 1962 season when he announced that he was quitting: "When a man loses his pride, he loses everything." Then he signed on with the Orioles as a coach under Billy Hitchcock...
Wooing the Public. For an industry that used to take professional pride in staying out of the public glare, the effect of all this controversy has been basic: instead of concentrating on wooing only doctors, as before, drugmakers are now going out of their way to win over the public. Several companies recently joined to launch a national advertising campaign to revive the drugmakers' image, and the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association is serving up a strong prescription of publicity, in the hope that it will cure the uneasy feeling that affects the industry...
Lean Staffs. The compact, single-plant companies, many of them years older than the giants, also pride themselves on being more flexible, can quickly change their product mix to accommodate special orders. "We can cook steel to order in 20 minutes," says Vice President Grady L. Roark of Chicago's Acme Steel. With lean executive staffs, the smaller companies can also reorganize in a hurry to combat tough times. Delaware's long-ailing Phoenix Steel has been revamped in 19 months by new President Stanley Kirk, who has turned red ink to black by cutting the production force...
Almost every country in the intensely nationalistic Arab world boasts a government-owned and subsidized airline, which proudly carries the flag but not enough of anything else to pay its way. An exception is tiny Lebanon (pop. 1,500,000), whose air travelers - and its pride - are well served by the Beirut-based, privately owned Middle East Air lines. Only a puddle-jumping outfit with a few aging DC-3s barely a decade ago, Middle East is now the world's 16th largest line-and the only profit-making airline in the Arab world. Last week it reported record...