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University officials in the past have stressed that the economic success of the Medical Area Total Energy Plant depends on its "co-generation" of steam, chilled water and electricity in one facility. If Harvard is not allowed to build the diesel generators that would produce electricity, the project may be a financial failure...
...among the nation's 250 largest corporations, with interests going beyond the publications. Time is part of the even larger Time-Life Inc., a publishing empire of international proportions. In each case, the company's financial viability rests on the sum profitability of its enterprises, not simply the relative success, failure, or intrinsic merit of the publication. The company naturally comes to view its publication in more profit-oriented terms, to the detriment of editorial standards. The extent to which commercial motives influence contents varies from publication to publication. A prime offender is Time, once devoted to politics...
Those precautions served only to whet journalistic appetites. Dozens of reporters tried to come up with the book's contents, without success. But ABC News cameras were allowed ten days ago to film the interior of the printing plant on the condition that its location not be revealed. TIME, which had made an offer for magazine rights to the book, attempted to determine the highlights of its contents by talking to some of those who were familiar with the work. Lipscomb two weeks ago offered to confirm or deny some details TIME had learned, but changed his mind after...
Also crucial to Rossignol's success was Boix-Vives's decision to go into multinational manufacturing. Says he: "It was better to produce on location abroad so that we could become accepted. It also gave us a better knowledge of local markets." Indeed, it was the company's Vermont plant that developed a compact ski suitable for New England's thickly wooded hills; the ski has also become a hit in parts of France, Austria and Germany...
Cooper commented later that while Feder fenced well she must "think more" and use other moves besides the one she used with success yesterday if she is to do well against Yale on Saturday...