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Through mergers, ITT has been striving to reduce its historic dependence on overseas manufacturing of telephone and electronic equipment and services for the bulk of its income. Thanks chiefly to his relentless pursuit of diversification, Geneen last year achieved his goal of balancing the company's foreign and domestic earnings. ITT's total profits reached a record $89.9 million in 1966 as its sales rose 14%, to $2.1 billion. Levitt's sales, as they have on the average for five years in a row, climbed by 25%, to $94 million. And the building company, which also retails...
...sense, President Johnson's bright hopes for Medicare have been met: the system already pays 25% of the nation's hospital bills, and when Medicaid is fully utilized, within three years, the two Government-backed plans will pay more than 50%. Yet the relentless rise in medical costs has forced the Government to pay out $100 million more than federal planners expected. As a result, taxpayers may be squeezed again. Warns Chairman Wilbur Mills of the House Ways and Means Committee: "Some adjustment in the tax schedule supporting Medicare may be needed...
...asked my parents to suggest a sport in which I could be a champion and a lady at the same time." Within four years, Little Miss Moffitt was a regular on the tournament circuit. Unlike many top women players, who hang back around the baseline, Billie Jean is a relentless net attacker, and her first volley is as good...
...relentless march of nearly 20 years time has left no mark on Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not For Burning. It is the same fat chestnut that it was the day he finished...
Anne herself left no explanation of why or how, with this full life, she wrote poetry, but write it she did-reams of it, in relentless iambic pentameter. It was dourly didactic, endlessly hortatory: "Come, come, I'll show unto thy sense,/ Industry hath its recompense." Some of it was inadvertently funny: "Was ever gem so rich found in thy trunk/ As Egypt's wanton Cleopatra drunk?" Yet when her work was published in London in 1650 as The Tenth Muse, Lately Sprung Up In America, it became one of the "most vendible books in England," and when...