Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real issue at stake is the political shape and leadership of Western Europe. De Gaulle is pressing for a loose confederation of states, presumably to be led by France and largely independent of the U.S.; Britain, he apparently feels, would not only rival French influence but act on behalf of the U.S. to dominate the Common Market. Adenauer, who is anxious to achieve almost any form of political union before he steps down, is now willing to go along with De Gaulle's concept. Belgium and The Netherlands prefer a far tighter, supranational federation, but failing that, they want...
Segni's chief rival for the job, which combines ceremonial functions with such real political leverage as the power to dissolve Parliament and veto legislation, was formally undeclared but well known just the same. He was fellow Christian Democrat Premier Amintore Fanfani, who had recently picked staunchly pro-Western Segni as Foreign Minister to balance his new center-left coalition, the much debated apertura a sinistra. Fanfani figured that by stubbornly clinging to about 40 votes that Segni needed to win, the deadlocked chamber would promote him to chief of state...
...down as a General Motors year. Already the world's biggest manufacturing corporation (more than $8 billion in assets), G.M. last week was growing in every direction. At home in the U.S., G.M.'s bread-and-butter car, the standard-sized Chevrolet, was outselling the rival Ford Galaxie by nearly 2 to 1. In Germany, G.M.'s Opel subsidiary was gearing up for fall introduction of its new Kadett economy sedan which seemed certain to lift still higher G.M.'s 11% share of world auto sales outside the U.S. In space, the giant automaker...
...good management that has done it. Though they would rather submit to the thumbscrew than say so publicly, executives of rival auto companies privately concede the superiority of G.M.'s organization. Says one Detroit titan famed for his aggressive competition with G.M.: "General Motors is the best managed organization in American industry-or, for that matter, anywhere in the world." Says another Big Three executive: "The General Motors system is so well thought out that you could run almost any business in any field successfully by using the G.M. philosophy, method and standards of organizational living...
Thomson sounds not only good but loud in every phase of electrical and electronic production in France. Still outranked in the rest of Europe by such rival electrical giants as Holland's Philips and Germany's Siemens (and only one twenty-fifth the size of America's G.E.), Thomson-Houston has outstripped all domestic competition in France and is still growing. Today the company's 21 factories turn out 50% of France's telecommunications equipment, 20% of its television sets, produce everything from electric light bulbs to antiaircraft missiles. Thomson's sales have doubled...