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Fishwick, a former attorney, is a prudent cost cutter; he has trimmed by almost one-third the number of reports that executives file, thus saving $520,000 a year-the price of a pair of new locomotives. But he has not skimped on employee training. All upper-and middle-ranking employees must complete a one-week computer course, and all salesmen will take a one-week course taught by Psychological Associates, Inc., St. Louis consultants who claim to build "persuasive communications skills...
...prudent reviewer will therefore not make ringing pronouncements. But it is clear that TTT can stand on the same shelf with Gabriel Garcia-Marquez's very dissimilar One Hundred Years of Solitude, and the provocative obscurities of Jorge Luis Borges. A much-impressed norteamericano wonders what else is hidden in the Latin trunk...
...substitution of epoxy for cement grouting, although it will drive costs upward once again, was nonetheless intended as a further improvement in the Center's controversial construction. "It seemed a prudent thing to do," concluded Leahy...
...Would it not be more prudent to hope that the optimists are right but to plan as if they are dead wrong? The results would be about the same, but if the optimists are wrong, the results will be certain catastrophe...
...will put equally rigid controls on the import of goods. In Washington, there is much discussion of imposing surtaxes on imports. Any of these steps would damage the system of free trade and investment, which has done so much to promote postwar economic growth. A much more prudent move would be for the U.S. to adopt an incomes policy, centered on wage and price guidelines. This would show skeptical Europeans that the U.S. is serious about curbing inflation-and thus strengthening the dollar...