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...spite of such broad activities, DSM's board still has to seek approval from the Minister of Economic Affairs for any expenditure of more than $25,000, must wait for a snail-paced Parliament to approve partnerships with private companies (recent examples: Dow Chemical, Pittsburgh Plate Glass). Many firms are reluctant to enter into deals that require excessive red tape and government scrutiny. Largely for such reasons, the Dutch decided on "privatization." For the time being, the government will remain DSM's only stockholder. But in all other respects, DSM President Antoine C. Rottier and his four vice...
...first draft should go as fast as the writer can think, said Lambuth. "Snail-pace writing never catches up with spontaneity-which is one of the greatest of the literary virtues." But rewriting is crucial-for example, to strengthen the beginning and the ending of each sentence, paragraph and the larger whole. Especially the endings: "What we hear last is usually the most vivid to us." Avoid grammatical fussiness: "In certain cases a preposition is the most emphatic word to end a sentence with." But worry about words: "There is rarely more than one right word to express an idea...
...torn down when the Government Center was completed. This might take a decade, reasoned the Halasz brothers, and all that time something ugly and un inspired would be sitting there. So they drew up plans for something attractive and imaginative: a red brick snailshell. Customers enter where a snail would, find tellers ranged behind a curved counter inside the shell. Daylight comes through a plastic dome in the roof. The little building has caused much comment ("Entering it along that sloping pathway," says a woman depositor, "is like being sucked into a hair drier"), and many Bostonians will be sorry...
...Taste for Babies. Though there are no immediate plans to use the scio-myzids in large-scale attacks on snail populations, Berg did send five dozen larvae by air mail to Hawaii. There they are being bred to combat a snail-borne liver-fluke disease that has been plaguing the Hawaiian cattle industry...
...Snail-Like Pace. Beyond that, each of the three had special reasons for shunning the SST. General Dynamics was not in much of a gambling mood after having lost $425 million on production of its Convair 880 and 990 jet liners; besides, it recently won the rich and controversial TFX fighter contract, and would be quite unlikely to bag two in a row from Washington. Douglas is preoccupied with its new short-range DC-9, for which it has only a disappointing 18 orders; in addition, President Donald Douglas Jr., 46, who has become the active manager of the company...