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...allows that he undermined his first-year legislative record by letting loose a flood of proposal to Congress right away, instead of introducing "our legislation in much more careful phases." He regrets, too, "weakening and compromising that first year on some of those worthless dam projects." Such honesty, if unspectacular, leaves one feeling that, for the first time, we can view the Carter Presidency as Carter himself does. The glimpse is compelling, as much for what it shows about the presidency as it does about the flawed world-view of its last Democratic occupant...
...vigorous research efforts in copiers, duplicators, electronic typewriters and other office gadgetry. Buying the firm was not Xerox's first attempt to diversify into financial services. In 1968 the company made, then dropped, a bid for C.I.T. Financial Corp. But Xerox's acquisition record has been unspectacular except for one notable failure. In the early 1970s, the company sank $1 billion into Scientific Data Systems, a computer maker that was written off in 1975 as an $84 million loss. Xerox's striking success with its copiers may have stunted the nurturing of genuine management depth in other...
Samuelson accepted an offer from MIT's young, unspectacular department, and proceeded to dominate the field of economics as few other scholars have in the century. Almost single-dedly, he attracted a long string of outstanding graduate students and faculty members to MIT, most notably Robert Solow...
...folks at Hershey Foods Corp. are feeling very happy these days. Reese's Pieces, a steady but unspectacular-selling brand of candy, has blossomed into an unexpected summer hit. Sales of the peanut butter-flavored candy shot up 65% in June after the release of E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, which is filling movie theaters at a record clip. In the film, E.T., an endearing space creature, is lured out of hiding by a boy who scatters pieces of the candy in his path...
...Crimson will be heading down to Athens, Ga., tomorrow to prepare for its opening match in the NCAAs against top ranked UCLA. but the netmen didn't let that stop them from plying their usual efficient, if unspectacular, brand of tennis...