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...Whitfield, vice president of Whitfield Pickle Co. in Montgomery, Ala., says his only problem is that he cannot get enough cucumbers. "At my plant we let 77 people go. It was not because of the economy but because we cannot get raw materials." In California the aerospace industry has seldom been hotter. Says William Perreault, vice president of Lockheed Corp.: "We're hard put to get the people we need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A More Severe Slump | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

...ongoing marvels of Greene's career has been his ability to restate his central vision so often while repeating himself so seldom. His latest novel continues this extended performance splendidly. No one familiar with his fiction could possibly mistake Doctor Fischer of Geneva for the work of anyone else or conceivably stop reading the book because it feels familiar. As uncannily as ever, Greene extracts surprise from the inevitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Harrowing off Heaven | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

...CBUA, a non-profit organization, chose the seldom-used Roxbury site for the festival in 1968 to draw members from all of Boston's communities...

Author: By Cheryl R. Devall, | Title: Flying Kites--A Better Use of Air | 5/13/1980 | See Source »

Cambridge Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 said Saturday, "Our cities must have the power to severely limit condo conversion." Because otherwise Cambridge and several other cities have only a .5-per-cent housing vacancy rate, evicted tenants can seldom relocate in their own communities...

Author: By Grace H. Freedman, | Title: Local Officials Want to Limit Condos | 4/29/1980 | See Source »

...firm seldom ignores administrative guidance because other companies would consider that firm a pariah, and the government can easily tie up an offender's business in red tape. The whole system is made smoother because Japanese business and government chiefs understand one another: the flick of an eyebrow, the yes that is not really a yes, the small nuance of conversation that can never be written down. Comprehension comes because these leaders usually have the same roots of culture and class. Often, they have gone to the same elite schools and universities. Says Norishige Hasegawa, chairman of Sumitomo Chemical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Capitalism in Japan | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

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