Word: subs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ultimate effects on ITT itself are not yet clear. The company seems as powerful a multinational force as ever. It boasts more than 200 primary divisions and subsidiaries and countless sub-subsidiaries*on every continent, which among other things operate the hot line between Washington and Moscow, manufacture telephones in Australia, Brazil and Norway, and run the Hamilton mutual funds in the U.S. A consumer who became annoyed with ITT would have a difficult time boycotting it: he could not rent an Avis car, buy a Levitt house, sleep in a Sheraton hotel, park in an APCOA garage, use Scott...
...business manual lists 284 subsidiaries of ITT subsidiaries, but others are untabulated, and there are also subsidiaries of subsidiaries of subsidiaries, or sub-sub-subs. -Columnist Joseph Kraft nevertheless insisted last week that the Administration genuinely feared in the spring of 1971, when the economy and a number of overstretched Wall Street brokerage houses were in trouble, that an ITT-Hartford breakup would have hurt the economy badly enough to damage President Nixon's political stature...
Congressman Charles Diggs, Chairman of the House Sub-Committee on Africa and the first chairman of the Black Caucus, told Bok in a telegram that...
...cases of torture that have been documented by the Sub-Committee for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, and the stories that are revealed during each trial, are intimidating in the beginning. But gradually you get used to the idea, you stop taking it into account in your every decision. You go about your business, taking every precaution of secrecy, hoping that they will not get you. The subject comes up very rarely when you talk with your colleagues, but when it does, it is only to encourage each other...
Refusing vinegar-soaked sponges offered by spectators, saintly Bennett Beach '71 sprinted his way into the hearts of Boston's townspeople yesterday with a sub-three hour performance in the annual Boston Marathon. Competing for the KISKO KIWIS. Beach finished 32 minutes behind winner Olavi Suomalainen of Finland and well ahead of author Erich Segal '58. "He's a brave lad. Ben is," said race coordinator Jock Semple. "We've been needin' more of his kind, instead of all those fatsos from C.C. with the weird hats...