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...Japanese school boy named Tadao Yoshida ran across a seemingly bland maxim of Andrew Carnegie's, which he remembers as: "Unless you render profit and goodness to others, you cannot prosper." Inspired by it, Yoshida eventually derived his own rule for running a company: one-third of potential profit should be sacrificed in order to hold down prices, another third should be used to help customers with discounts and rebates, and only the final third should be retained as "pure profit...
...reason why I shouldn't be a good President. It doesn't frighten me at all. I feel prepared, and I know the policies I believe in would be sound." Nonetheless, some people worry that Ford's plodding, amiable ways and his eagerness for consensus may render him less than decisive in a national crisis. His openness could prove to be a liability in the White House, where nations hang on a President's every word. Candor could cause the same kind of trouble for Ford that it did for Harry Truman?though it must be said that Truman survived...
Just a block away, Rodino gaveled his Judiciary Committee into session to render their decisive verdict that Richard Nixon should be impeached. There were Southerners and Northerners, liberals and conservatives, black and white, male and female, and they came from California, Massachusetts and most places in between...
...novels Snow Country (1956) and Thousand Cranes (1959). Which is to say that this most Japanese of Japanese writers remains somewhat obscure to Western readers despite his 1968 Nobel Prize for Literature. His fiction seems to be most valued in Japanese for those qualities that are most difficult to render in trans lation: precision and delicacy of image, the shimmer of haiku, an allusive sad ness and minute sense of the impermanence of things...
...Loman family on stage seems like it ought to be so simple--after all, Miller has done all the hard work, hasn't he? The simplicity is doubtless deceptive. But unfairly or not, one tends to feel less than charitable toward a production that does not at least render such a play intact. And while this may be harsh, it is not without sense. It hardly seems worth the effort of producing a play if one cannot give it on stage at least as much vitality as it has on paper...