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...homes near St. Petersburg and Fort Lauderdale. From its original base in timber, Boise Cascade expanded into both land development and construction by picking up five companies in three years. Now the Idaho-based company aims to become a truly nationwide builder of homes, so far an almost unheard of goal in the highly localized housing business...
...defense job the easy informality of the skilled politician. He usually ducks down from Suite 3-E 880 to eat in the staff mess. This week he will take 30 of his top aides, military and civilian, down to Airlie House in Virginia for strategic discussions. In a gesture unheard of under his two predecessors, Laird invited their wives along...
...more than a hundred such factotums scattered throughout Russia. Today he is one of the ten members of the Secretariat of the Central Committee, the most powerful executive body in the U.S.S.R. "Katushev is the man to watch," says Columbia University Sovietologist Severyn Bialer. "His rise has been spectacular, unheard of. It is largely due to Brezhnev, who may be grooming him to replace Kosygin eventually...
...square feet of space in them. When leases expire these days on apartments not subject to rent controls, landlords throughout New York City are demanding rent increases averaging 26.5%. In Manhattan, rents have been rising an average of 31%, and "horror case" increases of 60% are not unheard of. On top of the boosts, many leases now provide for "automatic" raises of 5% or more a year and further hikes whenever real estate taxes rise. Some landlords offer only two-year leases instead of the standard three-year contracts...
...sides of its ancient buses had been plastered with huge red posters bearing the reassuring message: "Saint-Gobain . . . a trustworthy trademark." Day after day, France's most aristocratic company, which was set up in 1665 by Louis XIV to make the glass for Versailles, blared its virtues in unheard-of fashion for French corporations-double-truck newspaper ads, regular radio and television appearances. Since Christmas, France has experienced what in the business world is something like the student-worker upheaval of last May and June. Compagnie de Saint-Gobain, Europe's largest-and by any measure its proudest...