Word: succession
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though members of the Fellowship termed the evangelical program a success, a few students did not agree...
Moderate View. At one time criticized for catering to an amorphous market, Chrysler now seems to have found its niche in intermediates and compacts. The Cordoba, introduced under Townsend last year, was an instant success; it was followed by Volare and Aspen, both aimed at small families. These cars now account for about half of Chrysler's sales, which were up 20% from a year earlier through the first 20 days of February. Next year the company will enter the subcompact field with a front-wheel-drive auto modeled after Chrysler France's highly praised Simca 1307/1308...
...That success earned Portman even more ambitious jobs. In San Francisco, he joined with Chase Manhattan Bank Chairman David Rockefeller, Dallas Developer Trammell Crow and the Prudential Investment Corp. to build Embarcadero Center, often called "Rockefeller Center West"-an 8.5-acre, $200 million office, apartment and hotel project. In Detroit, Henry Ford II called on Portman to save the city's dying downtown by designing the 32-acre, $200 million Renaissance Center...
...prestige, are in decreasing supply. Where cancer is concerned, money tends to go to experimenters with positive track records. As The Patchwork Mouse illustrates, such lopsided philanthropy leads not only to personal tragedy but scandalous science. The dangers of a system fueled by anxiety and dependent on immediate success cannot be exaggerated. The Summerlin affair was only the handwriting; Hixson is worried about the wall itself...
...schemes for beating the odds, lovers of exotic pets who bought his talking dogs only to learn that they had been "stricken" with laryngitis, and one detective who was finessed into buying $30,000 in "stock" from convicted Swindler Weil while escorting him to prison. The secret of his success? "Each of my victims had larceny in his heart," explained the master of hanky-panky...