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...most pressing U.S. problems is mass transit-so it might seem that a company with plans for speeding the movement of people from home to office was well positioned to prosper. Not so: when inflation and recession struck, city fathers and taxpayers rebelled against any projects that did not seem absolutely essential. Among companies caught with unfulfillable dreams of tomorrow, none has suffered more than Rohr Industries, Inc. of Chula Vista, Calif...
Other coups followed as B.C. moved into real estate speculation and sake brewing. In 1952, he decided that South Korea "could only prosper through trade." He set up his Samsung (Three Star) export-import company to do just that, and the firm quickly provided profits that Lee shrewdly invested in other ventures. Now Samsung is the umbrella of a 17-company conglomerate that includes Seoul's finest department store, one of its largest newspapers, a group of sugar refineries, paper factories and an electronics firm. Together they rang up sales of $731.9 million last year...
...groups-rich, middle class and poor. Opened late last year, the project has leased one-third of its 2,100 rental units and sold 27 of its luxury apartments-for $18,500, plus $658 a month maintenance. It is too early to tell if this brave new town will prosper. But the concept is vital, and Roosevelt Island is being closely watched by city planners...
...claim this nation cannot prosper without nuclear power [Dec. 8]. But a growing number of Americans believe we cannot survive with fission; it is our Frankenstein's monster, a creation we can ill afford to nurture any longer...
...controversies can be understood as part of a persisting American ideological commitment to success-to a firm belief in its possibility, to a desire for proof of its achievement, here and now. Even Cotton Mather, no pagan hedonist or crass materialist or psychologically "oriented" suburbanite, wanted his children to prosper-and saw in such a fate for them a realization of himself. Today many of us fight for our children as if it were heaven itself we have in mind as we roll up our sleeves or bare our teeth. If public schools lack certain qualities, then one must find...