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...antitrust effort today is how to weigh the admitted advantages of competition against the economics of scale in any given field. Businessmen argue forcefully that at a time when the U.S. faces increasing competition from government-backed rivals overseas, American corporations need size and financial muscle to survive and prosper. While AT&T does not face competition in the usual business sense, the trustbusters will be hard put to prove their case that surgery on the company would be in the national interest...
When Cox called in May 1973, Neal's private law practice was beginning to prosper. The son of a farm family of modest means, Neal had a comfortable life. His small farm boasted a tennis court, and he had enough leisure to use it and to spend time with his wife and two children. He told...
Sensual Fire. Plisetskaya's Odette is all shimmering ice; her Carmen is sensual fire. By and large, this version of the Prosper Mérimée story is downright ludicrous. Set to a percussive rehash of Bizet melodies (some from Carmen, some not), the choreography by Cuba's Alberto Alonso must have seemed madly daring when it was first shown in Moscow seven years ago. In fact, it is full of dated psychological posturings. Moreover, despite strong dancing by blond young (24) Aleksander Godunov, one of Plisetskaya's favorite partners, and Sergei Radchenko, the roles...
...letter-writing campaign urging a similar course of action on the Government will bear much fruit. At best, the savings in fertilizer would make only a dent in the world's food problems. But it is reassuring that small acts of conscience can still take root and prosper...
...Japanese school boy named Tadao Yoshida ran across a seemingly bland maxim of Andrew Carnegie's, which he remembers as: "Unless you render profit and goodness to others, you cannot prosper." Inspired by it, Yoshida eventually derived his own rule for running a company: one-third of potential profit should be sacrificed in order to hold down prices, another third should be used to help customers with discounts and rebates, and only the final third should be retained as "pure profit...