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...initiative promotes research that is international in scope and impact, according to Senior Associate Dean of International Development John A. Quelch...
...dawn raids on Coke facilities from the Continent to Britain in search of evidence that the company was offering retailers illegal kickbacks for favored shelf space. That investigation is ongoing. And last month French authorities rejected Ivester's $840 million bid for the Orangina soft-drink business. Observes John Quelch, dean of the London Business School: "The power of global brands may be strong, but they are not strong enough to preclude the need to cultivate [government] relationships at the national level...
...looking at the oil dump bombings is to see them as part of an Administration effort to quelch anti-war campaigns. Up until several weeks ago the State Department was daily informing reporters that Hanoi banked on U.S. public opinion to win the war for them. Now through the bombings the situation has reversed. North Vietnamese morale is said to be sagging, and Americans are asked to wait until it collapses...
Barbara Smith, a freshman at UT, was cast six months ago as Dido, but one week before opening she was told by the administration that she would not appear in the opera. The reasons given were: "to insure Miss Smith's well-being and to quelch any possibility that her appearance would precipitate a cut in the University's appropriations in the state legislature...
Sellers and distributors want the nickel or so profit they can pick up on 25-cent reprints. The crusading spirit, the desire to quelch this net of understated but forceful censorship, does not draw its strength from this group. These men are all too willing to cooperate, and one can hardly blame them. Profit and not principle is their bread and butter...