Word: ripe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thomas in St. Paul, Minn., Robert D. Lund voices a business philosophy that is pure Vince Lombardi. "The way to win," he says, "is to get out in front and improve your position. When you're green you're growing, but when you're ripe you're next to rotten." His hard sell seemed appropriate enough at General Motors' Chevrolet division, where as general sales manager he set a record of 3 million vehicles sold in 1971, but somewhat out of place at the Cadillac division, which he took over as general manager in January...
...Toronto from the age of 13, was a veteran of a trucker's pleasures. "I wasn't such a great drinker," he says, "but women were a source of evil for me." He had also narrowly escaped death from a flash fire while fueling trucks. "At the ripe old age of 20, I was coming apart." A chance visit to a Toronto church service led to three nights of prayer, and "on that third night I gave myself to Jesus Christ." He got married, began Bible studies, and was eventually ordained by the Independent Assemblies...
...mere chance that Patty was ripe for such a cause when the S.L.A. kidnaped her and thus was able to win her over to its side with fanatical rhetoric...
...billion in March alone. The performance is all the more staggering because four mark revaluations, combined with inflation, have doubled the prices of most German products on world markets in the last five years. Indeed several scholarly institutes in West Germany are suggesting that the time is ripe for yet another revaluation of the mark...
...with TIME's Taber, Giscard noted last week, "In my campaign I have two fundamental ideas: to make France a fair, democratic society and to contribute to European unity. While the latter can be done through monetary and political cooperation, the organization of European institutions is not yet ripe for rapid initiatives. [In domestic affairs] French presidential elections are the beginning of change. The style of French politics will, I think, be profoundly modified. It seems indispensable that the center parties be represented in the government. President Pompidou modernized economic life, and I want to modernize political and cultural...