Word: superior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moscow Philharmonic, while his son Igor, 35, fiddles. David, long considered one of the world's great violinists, now proves himself, after only five years on the podium, a conductor of major talent, while young Igor shows every indication of keeping the Oistrakh name in the annals of superior violinists. Together, they exploit every nuance in Tchaikovsky's eternally popular concerto, an exercise in wild conversation between the persistent, articulate voice of the violin and the rumbling, colorful orchestra...
...Common Market, long under fire for its unconscionably discriminatory duties, will gradually revert to the low tariff level of Germany in pre-Common Market days. Still, the Six would not tinker at all with high rates on electronic computers, automated machine tools, helicopters and other items vulnerable to technologically superior outside competition. The U.S. reduced duties on 6,000 imports. The maximum 50% tariff cuts should please foreign manufacturers in many areas, including aircraft (chiefly Britain), still cameras (Common Market and Japan) and wood pulp (Canada). In industries already under heavy pressure from foreign competition, notably steel and textiles...
Near dusk, the demonstrators began the mile-long march to the hotel. Though they had a permit to parade, Santa Monica Superior Court Judge Orlando Rhodes had issued an injunction forbidding them to halt. But the marchers were unable to continue when about 5,000 spectators jammed the street in front of the hotel where John son was elaborating on his summit-based hopes for world peace...
...world where overcrowding makes mutual respect more difficult and that much more necessary, is the only one which can permit men to live together. In a cultivated society there can be no excuse for the only real inexpiable crime of man, that of considering himself abidingly or momentarily superior; be it for reasons of race, culture, conquest, service or merely expediency...
Profit, Not Bigness. So far Hathaway, who came to Velsicol two years ago, has outperformed his leader. When he arrived, Velsicol already had superior research facilities and a broad line of agricultural and industrial chemicals and resins. But it was family-owned and vertically run, suffered from sluggish marketing. Hathaway horizontalized operations; he split the company into three domestic and two international divisions and set higher sales targets. "We're reaching for $100 million," he says, "but $200 million in sales is proper for a structure of this size, and $800 million is about maximum. Our objective...