Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said, "I probably should add that I think much remains to be done." President Kennedy and his lieutenants are well aware of that feeling. But it may take more than happy whistling for them to turn the tide in that vague but vital field known as "business confidence...
...Mekong valley, as the vital boundary between Thailand and Laos, might still be denied to the Communists. But as the Reds move even farther south in Laos, they will make it tougher to achieve an eventual anti-Communist victory in South Viet Nam, and easier for them to step up harassment of Thailand...
...Another vital G.M. legacy from the Sloan era is G.M.'s overriding emphasis on a strong, healthily prosperous dealer organization. Sloan picked his dealers carefully, watched over their accounting methods, and saw to it that they were all geographically spaced to divide the market properly. After the 1955 auto glut-when the company was accused of forcing so many cars on dealers that they had to dump them at almost any price-G.M., with prompting from the Senate's O'Mahoney subcommittee, further improved its dealer relations. It extended dealer contracts from one year to five...
...inside jacket pocket a handy little argument settler. Most auto executives have modest ones, but Donner's comes in a specially made 2-in.-thick leather case. It is jammed with scores of photostatted cards, about the size of a playing card. containing in miniature all the latest vital statistics on G.M. and the auto industry, as well as basic figures about the gross national product and foreign trade. (A wine fancier, Donner also has in his pocket file a card listing the vintage years...
...founding father of European unity, France's Jean Monnet, last week assured Britain that Market members are eager for it to join. The farsighted Monnet, 73. gazed even beyond the day when continental Europe and Britain will merge, predicted that European unity "will play a vital part in creating conditions leading to real peace between East and West." Said Monnet: "When the partnership of America and a united Europe makes it plain to all that the West may change from within but that others cannot change it by outside pressures, the conditions will exist for a lasting settlement between...