Word: stubborn
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...makes a plea for good sense and moderation in the businessman's own terms. "The prematurely sick or dead executive is a failure," says Steincrohn. "He has let down his family, his friends, his corporation. And often the executive most brilliant in his work may be the most stubborn and obtuse when it comes to keeping healthy and staying alive...
...Just as Stubborn." Confronted with such stern resistance, Newhouse has sued in U.S. District Court in Boston for the right to examine the books. He does not deny a consuming curiosity about the papers' pension fund, which finances employee benefits unparalleled in the U.S. press. A Springfield newspaper employee of 30 years can retire at 60 at full pay for life. To support such generosity, Newhouse says, the fund has assets in excess of $17 million...
...improvement of the physical plant and of the newspapers themselves." As far as Custodian Cook is concerned, Newhouse can whistle somewhere else for a meal-at least until 1967. Said Cook last week: "Newhouse has met a bunch of New England Yankees up here who are just as stubborn...
...more concerned about President Charles de Gaulle's stubborn efforts to revise the character of Europe's defenses than it lets on. So is De Gaulle's Western European partner, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer...
...Unimpressive all season and steadily slipping in national ranking, Syracuse finally showed some of last year's championship style, came to life in the second half to salvage its unbeaten record and set back a stubborn Penn State team...