Word: ripeness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While most U.S. corporations are continually on the prowl for ripe acquisition possibilities, merger fever is just beginning to infect Britain, which still abounds with inefficient, low-profit companies that duplicate products and services. Ironically, the Socialist government has been the primary booster of a trend toward bigger business, and in 1966 formed the Industrial Reorganization Corporation to promote and help finance regroupings in industry. As it happens, the chief beneficiaries of the government-sponsored merger wave are groups of experts who act as brokers for companies in search of a good...
...almost cottage-size businesses whose copycat ways add little to the economy. A case in point: 48 manufacturers of electric blankets, pads and bed warmers produce 242 different models, and none of them makes much money. When the merger mood gets into full swing, those firms will be ripe...
...Seeking major change in the spirit of Selma in 1967 is unusual in a city ripe for a Watts-like episode. It is a tribute to the moral integrity of Milwaukee's Negro youth and their advisers that they are marching. Your comments reflect upon a man who has done more to promote peaceful change in Milwaukee than any other individual...
Westin would like to believe the time is ripe for such laws, and he says in conclusion that "American society now seems ready to face the impact of science on privacy." He points with hope to the fact that both far left and right share a distaste for the electronic invaders. But his reliance on the public may be too optimistic. As he indicates elsewhere in the book, public concern has blown hot over subliminal advertising, but has been only lukewarm in other areas. It shows no real sign of having changed...
After a summer of mounting disenchantment with President Johnson, it seemed to many left-wing groups that the time was ripe to coalesce the nation's discontent into a third national political party. But when 200 radical organizations tried to do so last week in Chicago at a convention of the Nation al Conference for New Politics, the result was a shambles...