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Cool Consideration. Nonetheless, Silent Spring was a runaway bestseller and an extremely effective polemic that stirred fierce argument, from village councils to the halls of Congress. Laws were proposed on local, state and federal levels to put rigid restrictions on the use of pesticides. Some of them were so sweeping that if they had been passed and enforced, they might very well have caused serious harm. In advanced modern societies, agriculture and public health can no longer manage without chemical pesticides...
Wrong-Way Runaway. Rarely, in fact, have Ford and its 167,000 employees been so excited about a new model-and the effect it will have on competition. Into Iacocca's office one day recently strolled Don Frey, triumphantly carrying a grainy photographic print of a competitor's 1965 model, obviously made with a telescopic lens under conditions far from ideal. "You've got to see this, Lee," he said, Iacocca took the picture, studied it, then broke out in a broad smile. "So that's what it's going to look like," he said...
...noticed-until it was too late-that the galloping horse emblazoned on the front grille of the Mustang is running the wrong way. Instead of going in the traditional counterclockwise direction of a U.S. racing horse, Ford's Mustang has bolted off in the wrong direction, like a runaway. That does not seem to bother Iacocca and his men, who know a good deal more about horsepower than about horseflesh. Even in the stable atmosphere of the Ford Division, they know that runaways are hard to catch...
...manage vast organizations is being enlarged enormously by the computer's ability to simulate complex situations, weigh thousands of variables, and produce dependable decisions far faster than the human brain. By forecasting future markets, computers locate gas stations and branch banks in the most profitable places. By controlling runaway inventories, they curb one of the leading causes of recessions...
...biggest slave-trading American colonies were not Southern but Northern-Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island. > The first American casualty against the British was a Negro-Crispus Attucks, a runaway slave killed in the Boston Massacre...