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...Welter of Theory...
...nation with mixed-capital enterprise. Which comes first-enterprise or the welfare state? An example is Pemex, Mexico's government oil company. Subsidized Pemex proudly proclaims itself "in the service of the nation," fulfills the proclamation by keeping prices of its products artificially low and supporting a welter of government social services. As a result, it makes little profit to plow back into development and into the establishment of a much-needed petrochemical industry...
...send around a memo that no G.M. man should accept a gift he cannot eat, drink or smoke in one day. G.M. and many others still send gifts to valued customers and contacts, but they try to make the gifts useful, or at least personal-not the welter of ashtrays, cigarette lighters, wallets, swizzle sticks, canapes, pocket knives and glassware that usually piles up in the executive closet at Christmas time. Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing will send out samples of its Scotch tape products, while Seattle's Simpson Timber Co. will content itself-and many a housewife-with...
Where Was the Fireman? Some of the commuters were as lucky as Land. One arm and one foot broken. Trainman Joe McDonald struggled to the door of the first coach and, in a welter of lifeless bodies, floated up to sunlight. Lloyd Nelson, 33. of Little Silver, N.J.. a survivor of the Pennsylvania Railroad wreck at Woodbridge, N.J. in 1951 (84 dead), had got a window open before his coach splashed into the bay. From the dangling car some passengers crawled hand over hand up the luggage racks to take rescuing ropes and hands. But Snuffy Stirnweiss died...
...long run, the chief hope that the Middle East's welter of conflicting national purposes could peaceably be reconciled lay in the establishment of a set of ground rules that would restrict political change in the Middle East to orderly, nonviolent channels. In essence, what Dag Hammarskjold was proposing was acceptance of such a set of rules and the establishment of a kind of U.N. trip wire to sound the alarm whenever anyone showed a disposition to violate them...