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Both actions were bitterly criticized by opponents of the government. Informed of the postponed elections, ailing Opposition Leader J.P. Narayan had a wry, two-word response: "For eternity." Opposition Members of Parliament called the constitutional amendments nothing less than a "blueprint for dictatorship." Most of them boycotted the special legislative session and protested the fact that at least 30 opposition M.P.s are still being held in "preventive" detention...
...Jack Benny, who switched from NBC to CBS in1948, drawing much of NBC'S top talent with him, was rewarded in 1963 by a two-word dismissal. "You're through," said James Aubrey, then head of CBS programming...
...warnings of U.S. air attacks less than a month before. In contrast to Thieu, North Viet Nam's leaders seemed ready-even eager-to admit that something had changed with the Paris agreement. At a presidential-palace reception, North Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong, 64, had a smiling, two-word reply to a foreign diplomat who offered his congratulations: "At last...
When asked why Honeywell made the risky purchase, company executives have a two-word answer: "Critical mass." They define that as the point at which Honeywell's computer business can generate enough profits to finance research and marketing efforts that will allow it to keep up with IBM. With only 5% of the data-processing market before picking up G.E.'s division, they say, Honeywell could never have reached that point. Now Honeywell has 8% or 10%. "We had to seek a dramatically larger share of the general market," explains Honeywell President Stephen Keating, an urbane Minnesotan...
...levy no new taxes, and expand employment, is a man obsessed with what jobs mean. As he sees it, unemployment is the root of most social ills and thus is the paramount political issue. Last fall, running for a second four-year term, the Governor plastered the state with two-word stickers: "Rhodes-Jobs." This week, when he is sworn in after a smashing re-election win, he can point to a remarkable record. During his tenure Ohio has added 330,000 jobs, and its unemployment rate has fallen from 5.7% to about...