Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could not have got in a quiet, back-room talk. The liberals retorted that all they really wanted-besides Kuchel's victory -was headline recognition that they, too, speak for the Republican Party. And Styles Bridges disappeared back behind the scenes, pleased that he had prevented a bitter split yet protected his own brand of pre-Eisenhower Republicanism in its last important redoubt...
...talks with U.S. businessmen that Mikoyan worked hardest to sell his theme. Weaving wit with bluntness that sometimes bordered on confession ("Solomon would probably split the blame for the cold war down the mid dle"), he entranced his listeners. He heaped praise on American business, chirped, with a twinkle, that Ford and General Motors enjoy just the same kind of peaceful coexistence that Russia wants with...
...CHINA'S split with Russia is "wishful thinking. Our relations with China have been good; they remain good, and they are getting better every day. The fact that you do not notice the existence of China does not change the fact that it does exist, and if you don't choose to notice it, that is your loss...
...Split. To get G.E. in shape for risk and opportunity, Cordiner put through one of the most thorough management revolutions in the history of U.S. industry. "American business," he says, "spends too much time on thinking about this month, this year. It ought to spend more time preparing for 15 to 20 years from now-the next business generation." Another Cordiner complaint: business is so big that individual initiative is often stifled. Men who once would have been bosses of their own companies have too little chance in a corporation to run their own shows. Cordiner's answer...
...broad and unwieldy after a decade of tremendous wartime and postwar growth. Cordiner split it into 27 autonomous divisions containing no small companies just the size "for one man to get his arms around." The head of each company is the boss, just as if he were running his own company. Within a loose framework of policy, he makes day-today decisions, sets his own budget, raises or lowers prices, sets up his own design and marketing policies, even makes capital expenditures...