Word: prospered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will become the fifth agency under the tent of Interpublic, a company founded on the still somewhat radical idea that an advertising enterprise can prosper by acquiring a lot of firms that are allowed, even encouraged, to compete with one another. The firm's mainstay remains McCann-Erickson, which bills more than $1 billion annually in ads from a long list of blue-chip clients, including Miller Brewing and Exxon. The Marschalk agency, which was a small outfit when McCann-Erickson bought it in 1955, is now one of the fastest-growing U.S. ad firms, handling such heavyweights as Gillette...
...inflation brings gross social change, not everybody will be hurt. Deak calculates that people who possess resources will do well. Farmers will flourish-unless Government steps in to regulate their income. His vested interests move Deak to believe that gold holders will prosper, because he expects the barbarous metal to rise and rise. The Arabs, he notes, are pushing up the price by putting so much of their new wealth in gold. He is less enthusiastic about big gold coins than small ones, which are easier to barter in a pinch. He thinks that silver has even more potential...
...prospect of being exposed to the full force of a competitive marketplace. "What I suspect is that there is a search for another security blanket now that the CAB security blanket is being removed," he says. Rather than harming the airlines, Kahn contends, deregulation will help many of them prosper. "We are making every carrier in this country a potential competitor of the other carriers by saying if you want to enter a market, we will do everything we can to let you enter that market...
...small airlines undoubtedly would prosper by moving into profitable niches overlooked by the bigger carriers. Southwest, a small regional carrier, has applied for routes to Chicago with a regular fare 50% below that of the major airlines, and it could perhaps make a marginal profit on that heavily traveled run. Freddie Laker is the perfect example of a small operator who chose a lucrative route and cut rates to fill his planes beyond the break-even point. But Laker incurs none of the costs of providing service to small communities that could not fill up his planes...
...seven years, and FORTUNE judged him "a whiz" at managing Textron's pension funds. In early 1974 he took management of those funds away from banks and shifted most of their assets from stocks into bonds. The move was well timed and caused Textron's pension funds to prosper far more than funds generally from then...