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...every car. Millicom sold for less than $2 a share a year ago, but it rose smartly. Then last month the brokerage firm of Dean Witter Reynolds began to recommend it. That helped lift the shares to 22 before the brokerage house learned that it could not legally solicit sales in some states. With that, Dean Witter brokers stopped pushing Millicom, and the stock dropped. Millicom still managed to end 1982 at 15, up 728%. Last week Dean Witter announced that it would make up losses to customers who purchased the stock in the week after the recommendation...
Several Mather Council members originally opposed referenda, calling it "an improper use of the Council," which could be used as a regular polling resource for political groups at Harvard, according to Caroline Lip-son '84. However, the opponents decided to actively solicit votes as one member said, "because it was too much trouble to fight the Council...
Santa Claus must dread dealing each yuletide with Harvard professors and administrators. His elves probably flee the workshop when mail from these ivory towers comes in. Just to solicit these requests, the big red man has to untangle the University's big red tape. And when the gift lists do emerge from the laboratories and the libraries, they are dominated by intangible, high-browed items...
...because of other qualities, especially the ability to innovate. The excellent companies, say the authors, "fawn" on their customers and learn from them. The best managers value action above all else, a spirit of "do it, fix it, try it." They insist on top quality in their products. They solicit their employees' ideas and "treat them like adults," allowing talented people "long tethers" for experimenting. To uncover these characteristics, the authors spent considerable time at each company. Said Waterman: "We didn't talk just to top management. We talked with ex-employees and people down the line...
...their age, sex, race and political attitudes, as well as which candidates they chose. Exit polling can be intrusive: officials in the state of Washington alleged that CBS aides in Black Lake (pop. 15) and NBC operatives in Bellingham (pop. 45,800) had come right into polling places to solicit opinions...