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...textile industry, quicker write-offs are money in the bank. A $15,000 spinning frame formerly charged off over 30 years at $500 a year will now be depreciated at $1,000 a year for 15 years. Hopefully, these increased tax savings will encourage textile men to buy such new machinery as a fully automated yarn mill now under development that cuts labor costs 40%. Textile men agree that the new write-offs will help mightily, but they are not fully satisfied yet. They vowed a further fight against the No. 1 problem-low-priced foreign imports-through a push...
Nevertheless, our problems persisted. The work was hard, the food simple, the language a strain, and the diarrhea a bother. And other problems were more subtle. It was some time before the Americans realized that their quicker response to the dinner bell was grouping them at the table, and the English and French tables for language practice which resulted met with only temporary success...
...player "runs" an imaginary plant producing "synthetic granules and bulk-oil food products." General Electric has six games going under such ear-shocking titles as Uniflo, Inven-trol and Dispatch-0. "It's really a way to adjust your mind to top management," explains one G.E. executive. "The quicker you start to think of a business problem as a thing without human beings, the bet-er you'll do." Not to be outdone, competing Westinghouse has its own game, oo. "But," says its training director, [. C. McKeon, "we have no illusions hat you can play a game...
...series of four pictures hanging on the light green wall opposite the elevators (which are not used very often, the stairs are quicker). The first shows a group of workers planting seed in an African village; the second, aged tribal chieftains dressed in colorful native costumes, bending over simple textbooks in an outdoor classroom. A third picture shows an Oriental girl, her jet black hair cropped to look like an overturned bowl, gazing suspiciously at a glass of milk and a piece of bread placed before her on a gay print tablecloth. The fourth picture is of two tiny children...
...Verdi marked only three slurs on the first page of the score; the printed versions have 43. Result:, a much quicker, slicker opening than Verdi intended...