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...many chief executives are being fired, says Professor Jennings, because it is becoming tougher and tougher to run a company. Marketing cycles change rapidly, rendering rules and procedures obsolete almost as soon as they are devised. Aggressive consumerism puts further pressures on top management. Moreover, the boom of the '60s produced a corps of executives who were hurriedly advanced through the ranks and were not properly seasoned. Corporate boards still are shaking out some of the losers who survived the 1969-71 recession...
...Government, paradoxically, is getting tougher with banks. Last week the Committee on Interest and Dividends asked ten large banks to justify increases in their prime lending rates to 10% from 9¼%. If CID concludes that the hikes violate voluntary guidelines, it could bring strong pressure to roll back the increases...
...Watergate cast, few had a reputation for being tougher, wilier, nastier or more tenaciously loyal to Richard Nixon than onetime Presidential Adviser Charles W. Colson. The former Marine captain is alleged by Jeb Stuart Magruder to have urged the original Watergate bugging and has been implicated in a host of other dirty tricks, including the forgery of a State Department cable. At the peak of his influence, he proudly boasted that his commitment to the re-election of the President was such that "I would walk over my grandmother if necessary...
...between Cairo and Tel Aviv attempting to break the impasse in the Kilometer 101 talks. He succeeded only in gaining a promise from Israel to be a bit more flexible. This did not satisfy Egypt, whose President, Anwar Sadat, has been under strong pressure from Arab hawks to be tougher...
...Land, filmed simultaneously with The Emigrants, continues the saga of the Neilson family and their encounter with America, but the emphasis has moved from affirmation to a tougher examination of how attainable the dreams that fueled the myth really were, a hard-nosed appraisal that remains sensitive and respectful to the people who dreamed those dreams. Troell presents a lavishly detailed social portrait of the immigrants at work and at rest, lingering over universal moments of human experience--the birth of a child, the marriage of a friend, the death of a neighbor...